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US
/ækˈsɛɫɝˌeɪtɝ/
]
[ UK /ɐksˈɛləɹˌeɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɐksˈɛləɹˌeɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
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a pedal that controls the throttle valve
he stepped on the gas - a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles
- (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected
How To Use accelerator In A Sentence
- For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
- When the driver takes his/her foot off the brake and puts it on the accelerator, the engine re-starts automatically and almost seamlessly.
- With the later advent of accelerator mass spectrometry, this has become a useful tool in geochemistry, but our counting techniques were not sensitive enough to make the method work. Raymond Davis Jr. - Autobiography
- Magnets, either conventional electromagnets or superconducting magnets, are placed along the accelerator tube at regular intervals.
- You can use a biological accelerator to speed up the composting process. The Sun
- A particle accelerator can cost up to f500,000.
- The radiation is a by-product of particle accelerators use in high-energy physics.
- Neither accelerator nor brake is fierce, the steering is accurate but requires no great effort.
- Almost, because fund expenses act as a drag on the upside and as a slight accelerator on the downside.
- To see dark matter, said Dr. Barish, scientists will have to build the world's biggest particle accelerator.