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Electron accelerator
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betatron
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
betatron \be"ta*tron\ n. a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux. Syn: induction accelerator.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux [syn: induction accelerator ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A betatron is a cyclic particle accelerator type. It is essentially a transformer with a torus-shaped vacuum tube as its secondary coil. An alternating current in the primary coils accelerates electrons in the vacuum around a circular path. The betatron ...
Usage examples of betatron.
Erickson got up from where he had been fussing over the power leads to their trigger a modified betatron rather than a resonant accelerator.
He hurried away to the shield around the target of the betatron, left open by Erickson.
Human flesh couldn't stand many months in a stretch of the cosmic radiation that sleeted through these spaces, the synchrotron and betatron and Cerenkov quanta that boiled from particles hurled in the gas across the intertwining magnetism of atoms and suns.