WordNet
n. a collider that operates at very low temperatures
Usage examples of "superconducting supercollider".
He thought of the expensive Superconducting Supercollider that was supposed to have been constructed in Texas.
The physicists were still smarting from the cancellation by Congress in the 1990s of the Superconducting Supercollider, a fifty-three mile tunnel of magnets and particle beams that would have been built under a cotton field in Ellis County, Texas, and would have cost as much as a small space station.
They christened it a superconducting supercollider, SSC for short.
The Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) would have been the preeminent instrument on the planet for probing the fine structure of matter and the nature of the early Universe.
A telephone number that belonged to a director of facilities construction at the Superconducting Supercollider in Texas, with a time, 3 pm, scrawled beside it.
Congress ultimately canceled funding for the Superconducting Supercollider—.