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Aerospace | A device for accelerating charged particles employing alternate electrodes and gaps arranged in a straight line, so proportional that when their potentials are varied in the proper amplitudes and frequency, particles passing through them receive successive increments of energy. (references) |
Medicine | An accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated along a straight path either by means of a travelling electromagnetic field or through a series of small gaps between electrodes that are so connected to an alternating voltage supply of high frequency that, as the particles arrive at successive gaps, the field always accelerates them. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Linear AcceleratorSynonym: linac (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Linear Accelerator |
| English words defined with "linear accelerator": microwave linear accelerator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "linear accelerator": Geel Linear Accelerator ♦ JAZELLE ♦ specialised purging system. (references) |
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 | This is Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma in 1957. Gordon's right eye was removed January 11, 1957 because the cancer had spread. His left eye, however, had only a localized tumor that prompted Henry Kaplan to try to treat it with the electron beam. Gordon is now living in the east bay, and his vision in the left eye is normal.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Dr. Henry Kaplan, in the 1950's, with an early model of the Linear Accelerator developed to treat cancer. For this picture the protective hood was removed, revealing the electronic insides of the six-million volt machine, used for radiation treatment.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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Business | Equipment obsolescence regarding linear accelerator would indicate that at least each Argentine province would need to acquire new equipment. (references) | |
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Expressions using "linear accelerator": Geel Linear Accelerator ♦ microwave linear accelerator. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
linear accelerator | 49 |
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| Language | Translations for "linear accelerator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | linear accelerator (linac), lineær accelerator (linac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lineaire versneller (linac), lineaire accelerator (linac), golfpijpversneller (linac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lineaarikiihdytin (linac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | accélérateur linéaire (linac, linear(ac)celerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Linearbeschleuniger (linac, linear(ac)celerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γραμμικός επιταχυντής (linac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lineáris részecskegyorsító, lineáris gyorsító. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acceleratore lineare (linac, linear(ac)celerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inearlay acceleratoray acelerador linear (linac). (various references) acelerador lineal (linac). (various references) linjär accelerator (linac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-e-e-i-l-l-n-o-r-r-r-t" | |
-5 letters: acceleration, recreational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6E 65 61 72 41 63 63 65 6C 65 72 61 74 6F 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i n e a r   A c c e l e r a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 006E 0065 0061 0072 0041 0063 0063 0065 006C 0065 0072 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46758071678423569697178718467868184 |
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