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bunchlet en · NOUN

Etymology

From bunch + -let.

Meanings

1. A small bunch.
   • She wore a gray tailor-made jacket over a white silk blouse that looked frilly and festive because of a kind of bow between the lapels, to one of which was pinned a bunchlet of violets. 2012, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!:
   • 'It's just as well to know,' intoned Sid, selecting quite studiedly a banana, his fingers darting back for a bunchlet of grapes. 2013, Joseph Connolly, It Can't Go On:
   • Yeupp trades a piece of bronze for a bunchlet of radische, whose pink root-fruit is tart and tasty to the tongue. 2019, Thomas White, The Runecaster: A Tale of Ancient Germany:
2. A very short burst of subatomic particles in the beam of a particle accelerator.
   • For the TS design assumed, the field of an incident bunchlet on the holes is not only coupled to the output but is also scattered back into the beam pipe, exciting waves in both directions. 1993, J Rossbach, High Energy Accelerators, page 892:
   • In the CLIC design the drive linac uses four trains spaced by 2.84 ns of 43 bunchlets (1 cm bunchlet spacing, 40 nC each) to produce via the transfer structures 30 GHz power pulses of 40 MW for the main linac. 1994, G. Carron, L. Thorndahl, “Progress with the CLIC Transfer Structures (CTS)”, in Christine Petit-jean-genaz, Vic Suller, editors, European Particle Accelerator Conference (Epac 94):
   • This drive-linac conceptual design implies certain challenges which have been addressed, mainly the bunchlet generation, the transfer structure design and the beam dynamics control. 2014, M. Dienes, M. Month, B. Strasser, Frontiers of Particle Beams: Factories with e+ e- Rings, page 165:

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