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STORAGE RING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("storage ring" is a kind of...):
container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))
Holonyms ("storage ring" is a part of...):
accelerator; atom smasher; particle accelerator (a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles)
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