US /kəˈlaɪdɚ/
noun Freq #37924

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A machine that speeds up particles and makes two beams of them crash into each other for research.

    Scientists used the collider to study how particles behave at high energy.

Thesaurus

Word family
Forms colliders
Derived forms supercollider

Etymology

From collide + -er.

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