cyclotron

English Thesaurus

1. an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator,
definition	:	a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	bevatron,
definition	:	a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	synchrocyclotron,
definition	:	cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	synchrotron,
definition	:	cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency (noun.artifact)