Standard Lemma guide

bevatron

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/
  • General-American: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cyclotron

History

Etymology

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

Across languages

Translations

6 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: bévatron — Translations
  • Polish: bewatron — Translations
  • Romanian: bevatron — Translations
  • Russian: беватро́н (bevatrón) — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: бе̏ватро̄н — Translations
  • Serbo-Croatian: bȅvatrōn — Translations