colliding-beam machine

[ kuh-lahy-ding-beem ]

nounPhysics.
  1. a particle accelerator in which positively and negatively charged particles circulate in opposite directions and collide head-on.

  • Also called col·lid·er [kuh-lahy-der]. /kəˈlaɪ dər/.

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