0 the pedal (= a part that you push with your foot) in a vehicle that makes it go faster
Start-up accelerators have become increasingly popular elements of the regional growth infrastructure.
Accelerator programmes are a relatively new way of supporting start-ups.
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:
Good companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum.
In the postwar period, governments saw co-operatives as an economic accelerator.
Accelerators offer you a way to pay off your mortgage sooner by increasing the number or amount of payments.
5 the principle that investment increases as demand increases, but by greater amounts
7 to make something happen or progress more slowly:
Insurers are taking their foot off the accelerator in anticipation of a softer market.
Repetitively pulsed high-current accelerators with transformer charging of forming lines.
Recirculating induction accelerators as drivers for heavy ion fusion.
Feasibility of using laser ion accelerators in proton therapy.
Perhaps higher-energy tests in particle accelerators might show up such non-linearities in the future.
Detailed cost estimates need to be made, but the time regime for the shor t pulse design is very similar to electron induction accelerators.
The on-axis density minimum features of these two channels make both of them suitable guiding channels for the laser wakefield accelerators.
Steering algorhythms for linear and recirculation heavy ion accelerators.
The use of plasma waveguides as accelerating structures in linear accelerators.