SYNCHROTRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synchrotron mean? 

• SYNCHROTRON (noun)
  The noun SYNCHROTRON has 1 sense:

1. cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency

  Familiarity information: SYNCHROTRON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNCHROTRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cyclotron in which the electric field is maintained at a constant frequency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("synchrotron" is a kind of...):

cyclotron (an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles)

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

cosmotron (a large proton synchrotron; uses frequency modulation of an electric field to accelerate protons)

 Context examples 

The shocked particles would then emit synchrotron radiation, causing the extended infrared signal.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)