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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

cyclotron

· IPA /ˈsaɪ.kləˌtɹɑn/
01 n. a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in…
  1. 1.
    a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.