collider

noun

col·lid·er kə-ˈlī-dər

: a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles moving in opposite directions are made to collide

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Then there’s the technological promise: Already, superconductivity has enabled the development of MRI machines and powerful particle colliders. —

Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024 This will all take place in a circular collider measuring 2.4 miles in circumference. —

Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024 Today, there's some skepticism in the scientific community and the general public about the value of building increasingly ambitious colliders, machines that are continuing the legacy of the Tevatron. —

Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024 The previous, more tantalizing result came from an experiment known as the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), which ran at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1984 until 2012, fed by the now-defunct Tevatron collider. —

Byadrian Cho, science.org, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for collider