noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/sɪŋkɹəʊˈsaɪklətɹɒn/
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noun
Meaning 1
A particle accelerator like a cyclotron, but which operates at variable frequency to account for the particles gaining energy, allowing for greater energies to be achieved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
2004: The synchrocyclotron was able to accelerate protons to sufficient energies that collisions with nuclei produce pions, the lightest particles that, we now know, are made from a single quark and an antiquark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 50)
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noun
Meaning 2
cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cyclotron
History
Etymology
From synchro- + cyclotron.
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4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
