PARTICLE DETECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does particle detector mean? 

• PARTICLE DETECTOR (noun)
  The noun PARTICLE DETECTOR has 1 sense:

1. a chamber in which particles can be made visible

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICLE DETECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chamber in which particles can be made visible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

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

bubble chamber (an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles)

cloud chamber; Wilson cloud chamber (apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track)

spark chamber; spark counter (an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles)

 Context examples 

Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)