0 the pedal (= a part that you push with your foot) in a vehicle that makes it go faster --
Accelerator programmes are a relatively new way of supporting start-ups.
Start-up accelerators have become increasingly popular elements of the regional growth infrastructure.
1 a substance that is added to other substances to speed up a chemical reaction --
2 a device used to accelerate very small pieces of nuclear material for scientific experiments --
3 a pedal (= part worked with the foot) in a car that makes the car go faster when pressed --
4 something that makes a process happen or makes something progress more quickly: --
Accelerators offer you a way to pay off your mortgage sooner by increasing the number or amount of payments.
In the postwar period, governments saw co-operatives as an economic accelerator.
Good companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum.
5 the principle that investment increases as demand increases, but by greater amounts --
We believe that our results can give some enlightenment on the future laser-plasma based accelerators.
The centre comprises a main campus with 5 linear accelerators, three satellite centres with 2 linear accelerators each and a single machine rural site.
Such an accelerating gradient is more than a thousand times larger than in conventional accelerators.
The ampoules, with pistons being mounted at the top of them, were set in motion by means of gas accelerators.
There is a high level of stability and azimuthal symmetry of the moving plasma in the accelerators.
The previous research on the coaxial plasma accelerators should be thought of as referring to a particular case in which the plasma does not rotate.
The gantries themselves are more imposing structures than linear accelerators and can enclose patients as much as helical tomotherapy equipment.
The use of plasma waveguides as accelerating structures in linear accelerators.
