Accelerator
noun
A device in a vehicle that makes it go faster.
She pressed the accelerator to speed up the car.
Often appears as...
- press the accelerator
- accelerator pedal
noun
A machine that makes particles move faster.
The collider is a type of particle accelerator.
Often appears as...
- particle accelerator
- collider accelerator
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Technical
noun
A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction.
Catalysts serve as accelerators to expedite chemical reactions.
Often appears as...
- chemical accelerator
- reaction accelerator
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Technical
noun
A program that helps new businesses grow more quickly.
She entered her startup into a business accelerator program to get mentoring and funding.
Often appears as...
- business accelerator
- startup accelerator
noun
A device in a vehicle that makes it go faster.
She pressed the accelerator to speed up the car.
Often appears as...
- press the accelerator
- accelerator pedal
noun
A machine that makes particles move faster.
The collider is a type of particle accelerator.
Often appears as...
- particle accelerator
- collider accelerator
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction.
Catalysts serve as accelerators to expedite chemical reactions.
Often appears as...
- chemical accelerator
- reaction accelerator
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A program that helps new businesses grow more quickly.
She entered her startup into a business accelerator program to get mentoring and funding.
Often appears as...
- business accelerator
- startup accelerator
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Action Verb
'Accelerator' goes often with verbs about action, like 'press', 'hit' or 'step on'.
He hit the accelerator when the light turned green.
Pro Tip 2/3Increase Speed
The accelerator in a vehicle is specifically to increase the car's speed quickly.
Feeling impatient, she stepped hard on the accelerator.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Use
Using 'accelerator' in a sentence can imply controlled speeding, not just reckless driving.
He gently pressed the accelerator, mindful of the icy road.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Verb
'Accelerator' goes often with verbs about action, like 'press', 'hit' or 'step on'.
He hit the accelerator when the light turned green.
Pro Tip 2/3Increase Speed
The accelerator in a vehicle is specifically to increase the car's speed quickly.
Feeling impatient, she stepped hard on the accelerator.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Use
Using 'accelerator' in a sentence can imply controlled speeding, not just reckless driving.
He gently pressed the accelerator, mindful of the icy road.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Verb
'Accelerator' goes often with verbs about action, like 'press', 'hit' or 'step on'.
He hit the accelerator when the light turned green.
Pro Tip 2/3Increase Speed
The accelerator in a vehicle is specifically to increase the car's speed quickly.
Feeling impatient, she stepped hard on the accelerator.
Pro Tip 3/3Controlled Use
Using 'accelerator' in a sentence can imply controlled speeding, not just reckless driving.
He gently pressed the accelerator, mindful of the icy road.
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Why our screens make us...
and we know people feel much better about their lives when they do this. So what's the take home here? Screens are miraculous; I've already said that, and I feel that it's true. But the way we use them is a lot like driving down a really fast, long road, and you're in a car where the accelerator is mashed to the floor, it's kind of hard to reach the brake pedal. You've got a choice.
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How does an atom-smashing...
It is a device that collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energy. The most powerful one scientists have ever built can heat matter to the hottest temperatures ever achieved, temperatures last seen at a trillionth of second after the universe began. Our accelerators are full of engineering superlatives.
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Is time travel possible?...
Humanity merged with machines, extinct due to climate change or asteroid impact, or inhabiting a permanent colony on Mars. But the trouble is, getting heavy things like people, not to mention space ships, up to such speeds requires unimaginable amounts of energy. It already takes enormous particle accelerators
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Looking for innovation...
between the economical and political conditions of the country and what I was seeing right in front of me however this shouldn't surprise us there's a renascence of innovation in Africa over a hundred plus incubators accelerators and herbs have cropped up all over the continent and centres of
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What we can learn from...
slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. They are mostly made up of dark matter, and that's what you see in this bluish purple. The red represents the hot gas, and, of course, you can see many galaxies. What's happened is a particle accelerator at a huge, huge scale.
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How we must respond to...
with support from Mastercard and now others, created this therapeutics accelerator to really triage out. You have hundreds of people showing up and saying, try this, try that. So we look at lab assays, animal models, and so we understand which things should be prioritized
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The Physics of...
they would not stop one another the way two swords would in a swashbuckling encounter this that's all I said there's a process that I've studied actually photon photon R gamma gamma scattering we college okay so it's a measured process at particle accelerators so very
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Where does gold come...
Actually, yes. Using particle accelerators, we can mimic the complex nuclear reactions that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram
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What’s the smallest...
This same force allows protons and neutrons to transform into each other, a vital part of the fusion interactions that drive the Sun. To observe the W and Z directly, we needed the high energy collisions provided by particle accelerators.
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
are called blazars, or blazing quasars. What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy.
Video examples
Why our screens make us...
and we know people feel much better about their lives when they do this. So what's the take home here? Screens are miraculous; I've already said that, and I feel that it's true. But the way we use them is a lot like driving down a really fast, long road, and you're in a car where the accelerator is mashed to the floor, it's kind of hard to reach the brake pedal. You've got a choice.
Video examples
How does an atom-smashing...
It is a device that collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energy. The most powerful one scientists have ever built can heat matter to the hottest temperatures ever achieved, temperatures last seen at a trillionth of second after the universe began. Our accelerators are full of engineering superlatives.
Video examples
Is time travel possible?...
Humanity merged with machines, extinct due to climate change or asteroid impact, or inhabiting a permanent colony on Mars. But the trouble is, getting heavy things like people, not to mention space ships, up to such speeds requires unimaginable amounts of energy. It already takes enormous particle accelerators
Video examples
Looking for innovation...
between the economical and political conditions of the country and what I was seeing right in front of me however this shouldn't surprise us there's a renascence of innovation in Africa over a hundred plus incubators accelerators and herbs have cropped up all over the continent and centres of
Video examples
What we can learn from...
slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. They are mostly made up of dark matter, and that's what you see in this bluish purple. The red represents the hot gas, and, of course, you can see many galaxies. What's happened is a particle accelerator at a huge, huge scale.
Video examples
How we must respond to...
with support from Mastercard and now others, created this therapeutics accelerator to really triage out. You have hundreds of people showing up and saying, try this, try that. So we look at lab assays, animal models, and so we understand which things should be prioritized
Video examples
The Physics of...
they would not stop one another the way two swords would in a swashbuckling encounter this that's all I said there's a process that I've studied actually photon photon R gamma gamma scattering we college okay so it's a measured process at particle accelerators so very
Video examples
Where does gold come...
Actually, yes. Using particle accelerators, we can mimic the complex nuclear reactions that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram
Video examples
What’s the smallest...
This same force allows protons and neutrons to transform into each other, a vital part of the fusion interactions that drive the Sun. To observe the W and Z directly, we needed the high energy collisions provided by particle accelerators.
Video examples
Jedidah Isler: How I...
are called blazars, or blazing quasars. What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy.
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Gail Simone
American Writer
A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.
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Christine Tsai
American Businesswoman
I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program.
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Arvind Gupta
Indian Inventor
A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch Physicist
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
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David Cohen
American Businessman
People look up to Techstars because they get funded by Techstars; they go through the accelerator. What we do impacts what they do. What we care about we hope has a meta impact on those entrepreneurs and how they think about the world.
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Dan Buettner
American Explorer
The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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Ernest Walton
Irish Physicist
A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.
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Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
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Steven Wright
American Comedian
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.
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Saul Perlmutter
American Scientist
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
Quote examples
Gail Simone
American Writer
A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.
Quote examples
Christine Tsai
American Businesswoman
I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program.
Quote examples
Arvind Gupta
Indian Inventor
A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.
Quote examples
Simon van der Meer
Dutch Physicist
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
Quote examples
David Cohen
American Businessman
People look up to Techstars because they get funded by Techstars; they go through the accelerator. What we do impacts what they do. What we care about we hope has a meta impact on those entrepreneurs and how they think about the world.
Quote examples
Dan Buettner
American Explorer
The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
Quote examples
Ernest Walton
Irish Physicist
A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.
Quote examples
Joseph Brodsky
American Poet
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
Quote examples
Steven Wright
American Comedian
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.
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Saul Perlmutter
American Scientist
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
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