CYCLOTRON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles

Classified under:

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

accelerator; atom smasher; particle accelerator (a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles)

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

bevatron (a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts)

synchrocyclotron (cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field)

synchrotron (cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency)