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cyclotron

cyc·lot·ron

UK/ˈsaɪ.klə.tɹɒn/ US/ˈsaɪ.kləˌtɹɑn/ uncommon

noun

1.

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

Origin

From cyclo- + -tron.

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