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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats