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a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux...
depreciation
depreciation 1 : any decrease in the value of property (as machinery) for the purpose of taxation that cannot be offset by current repairs and is carried on company books as a yearly charge amortizing the original cost over the useful life of the property accelerated depreciation : the depreciation of property that was put into use prior to 1980 which is allowed at a faster rate than normal under the depreciation rules in force before the adoption of the Accelerated Cost Recovery System straight-line depreciation : depreciation of an asset by a fixed percentage of its original cost based on its estimated life 2 : a loss in the value of property due to physical deterioration and wear or to obsolescence and lack of adaptability ...
colliding beam machine
a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles usually of opposite charge are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on called also colliding beam accelerator and collider...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
Particle accelerator
A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles such as protons or electrons to speeds near that of light for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter sometimes also called an atom smasher since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles...
Hasten
To press to drive or urge forward to push on to precipitate to accelerate the movement of to expedite to hurry...
escape velocity
The minimum velocity at which an object must be moving in order for it to overcome the gravitational attraction of a massive celestial body such as the earth or the sun and escape beyond its gravitational field into free space The velocity is calculated as though attained instantaneously at the surface of the celestial body and is pointed directly away from its center and neglecting effects of atmospheric friction Rockets which accelerate gradually and are moving rapidly at a high altitude when their fuel is exhausted or their engines shut off may escape even if moving slightly slower at that point than the surface escape velocity Compare orbital velocity...
decelerate
to reduce speed as The car decelerated Opposite of accelerate...
dee
an electrode with a large interior cavity shaped like the letter D used in opposed pairs to accelerate particles in a cyclotron...
Retard
To keep delaying to continue to hinder to prevent from progress to render more slow in progress to impede to hinder as to retard the march of an army to retard the motion of a ship opposed to accelerate...
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