bevatron
See also: bévatron
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bevatron (plural bevatrons)
- A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
- 1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1:
- Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.
- 1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research:
- By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
- 1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment:
- In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.
Descendants edit
- → Polish: bewatron
Translations edit
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bévatron.
Noun edit
bevatron n (plural bevatroane)
Declension edit
Declension of bevatron
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bevatron | bevatronul | (niște) bevatroane | bevatroanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) bevatron | bevatronului | (unor) bevatroane | bevatroanelor |
vocative | bevatronule | bevatroanelor |