Bevatron
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bevatron is a noun meaning A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
Meaning
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
Example Sentences
By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.
Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.
Word Forms
- bevatrons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include zevatron, betatron, varitron, accelerator, teraelectronvolt, supercollider.
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