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Betatron

Definition: Betatron

Betatron

Noun

1. Accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Betatron

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

A particle accelerator in which magnetic induction is used to accelerate electrons.Betatron refers to the accelerated particles, electrons, which are identical with beta particles. (references)

Mining

A doughnut-shaped accelerator in which electrons are accelerated by achanging magnetic field. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

An electron accelerator in which the magnetic fields normal to the circular orbit of the electrons and within that orbit increase with time; the field at the orbit maintains a stable orbit while the changing magnetic field inside the orbit accelerates the electrons in the orbit. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Betatron

Synonym: induction accelerator (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Betatron

Specialty definitions using "betatron": beta particles. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Betatron" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (betatron), Serbo-Croatian (betatron), Swedish (betatron).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Betatron

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

betatron

6
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Modern Translations: Betatron

Language Translations for "betatron"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏البيتاترون جهاز علمي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

бетатрон. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

原子感" 速器. (various references)

   

Czech

  

urychlovaè elektronù. (various references)

   

Danish

  

betatron. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bètatron. (various references)

   

French

  

bêtatron. (various references)

   

German

  

Betatron. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βητατρόνιο, βήτατρον. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elektrongyorsító. (various references)

   

Italian

  

betatrone. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ヘ長調 (a hike in the basic wagebase up, bacon, bailout, bake off, baked potato, Bakelite, bakery, baking powder, bare look, bare top, base, base camp, base coach, base down, basement, BASIC, Basic English, bass, bassist, Bayes, Bayesian, Bayrische Motorenwerke, bearing, Beethoven, Behcet, beige, Beirut, Belgrade, beta, BMW, F major, kiss, salary increase, to base something on, to make something the basis, valium, vector, Vega, veil, version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ベータトロン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etatronbay

   

Portuguese

  

betatrao, betatrão, aparelho acelerador de elétrons. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

betatron. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бетатрон. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

betatron. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

betatrón. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

betatron. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

бетатрон. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Betatron

Derivations

Words beginning with "betatron": betatrons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Betatron

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-o-r-t-t"

-1 letter: abettor, baronet, reboant, taboret.

-2 letters: atoner, attorn, banter, batten, batter, bettor, boater, borane, borate, natter, notate, ornate, ratten, ratton, rebato, rotate, rotten, torten.

-3 letters: abort, antre, atone, baron, baton, beano, beton, betta, boart, boner, borne, brant, brent, noter, oaten, oater, orate, ottar, otter, rotte, taber, tabor, tanto, tarot, tater, tenor, tetra, toner, torte.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-o-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: betatrons.

 

+2 letters: exorbitant, trabeation.

 

+3 letters: battlefront, botheration, protuberant, trabeations.

 

+4 letters: battlefronts, battleground, botherations, contractible, contrastable, counterblast, exorbitantly, interorbital, obliterating, obliteration, obstetrician, perturbation.

 

+5 letters: abortifacient, bacterization, battlegrounds, counterblasts, liberationist, obliterations, obstetricians, pentobarbital, perturbations, protuberantly, reattribution, subcontracted, transportable, unforgettable, unforgettably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Betatron


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 74 61 74 72 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    -    .-    -    .-.    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0074 0061 0074 0072 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671866786848180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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