WordNet
n. ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path [syn: linac]
Usage examples of "linear accelerator".
At both ends of the linear accelerator, electron-positron pairs were created in small cyclotrons.
The top of the linear accelerator began to track across the underside of Mons Olympus.
We've updated the MRI, built the neonatal ICU, and replaced the old cobalt-60 machine with a new state-of-the-art linear accelerator.
He knew that he would be launched by linear accelerator from the Moon.
He knew that he would be launched by linear accelerator from the moon.
We drove to the Sand Hill Road exit (location of the dreaded venture capital mall) west off the 280, into the paddocks and oaks and horsey area, parked the bus, and walked across a Christmas tree farm to a Cyclone fence surrounding the Stanford Linear Accelerator, a structure that resembles a mile-long rear side of a 7-Eleven - sandstone-tinted aluminum siding with tasteful landscaping.
Along with the fifty-four miles of Collider were sixteen more miles of injection devices: the Linear Accelerator, the modest Low Energy Booster, the large Medium Energy Booster, the monster High Energy Booster, the Boosters acting like a set of gears to drive particles into evermore frenzied states of relativistic overdrive, before their release into the ferocious grip of the main Super Collider ring.
When the Japanese had dug the shaft, they had apparently taken the debris that their machines had removed and used a linear accelerator to blast it up and out of the hole.