Associations to the word «Cyclotron»

Wiktionary

CYCLOTRON, noun. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic and alternating electric fields.

Dictionary definition

CYCLOTRON, noun. An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley