STORAGE RING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storage ring mean? 

• STORAGE RING (noun)
  The noun STORAGE RING has 1 sense:

1. container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used

  Familiarity information: STORAGE RING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORAGE RING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("storage ring" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Holonyms ("storage ring" is a part of...):

accelerator; atom smasher; particle accelerator (a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles)