accelerator
noun
a person or thing that accelerates.
accelerators
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pluralof accelerator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Standard balloons, made of natural rubber, undergo sulphur vulcanization, with accelerators, activators and other substances added, said the scientists at Imperial.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The company’s AI revenue, which counts all PCs and smartphones with dedicated AI accelerators, AI and GPU servers and related services, jumped 60%, to now account for 35% of all revenue.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Unlike AI accelerators, China’s optical and networking stack doesn’t face a tech bottleneck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Over the weekend, Samsung announced it would pursue a "strategic collaboration" for the "supply of industry-leading memory solutions, including HBM" -- supporting US chipmaker Broadcom's next-generation AI accelerators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
As so often happens in science, their discoveries only whet the appetite for more research, which in turn created a demand for bigger, more expensive accelerators.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
