SYNCHROTRON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("synchrotron" is a kind of...):

cyclotron (an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "synchrotron"):

cosmotron (a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons)

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