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PARTICLE BEAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does particle beam mean? 

PARTICLE BEAM (noun)
  The noun PARTICLE BEAM has 1 sense:

1. a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules)play

  Familiarity information: PARTICLE BEAM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTICLE BEAM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("particle beam" is a kind of...):

beam; electron beam; ray (a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particle beam"):

ion beam; ionic beam (a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed)


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