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SYNCHROTRON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("synchrotron" is a kind of...):
cyclotron (an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "synchrotron"):
cosmotron (a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons)
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