synchrocyclotron

English

Etymology

From synchro- +‎ cyclotron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪŋkɹəʊˈsaɪklətɹɒn/

Noun

synchrocyclotron (plural synchrocyclotrons)

1. A particle accelerator like a cyclotron, but which operates at variable frequency to account for the particles gaining energy, allowing for greater energies to be achieved.
   • 2004: The synchrocyclotron was able to accelerate protons to sufficient energies that collisions with nuclei produce pions, the lightest particles that, we now know, are made from a single quark and an antiquark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 50)

Translations

particle accelerator

• Basque: sinkroziklotroi (eu)
• French: synchrocyclotron (fr) m
• Polish: synchrocyklotron m
• Spanish: sincrociclotrón m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

synchrocyclotron m (plural synchrocyclotrons)

1. synchrocyclotron

Further reading

• “synchrocyclotron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.