Dictionary

bevatron en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/ (General-American)
• /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

Meanings

1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
   • By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme. 1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research:
   • In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility. 1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment:
   • Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron. 1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1:

Forms

Descendants

беватро́н · bewatron

Translations (6)

sh bȅvatrōn (Translations) · ro bevatron (Translations) · fr bévatron (Translations) · pl bewatron (Translations) · sh бе̏ватро̄н (Translations) · ru беватро́н (Translations)