Word Finder - accelerators

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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A device for causing acceleration.

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A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.

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A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.

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A chemical that reduces development time.

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A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles.

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A muscle or nerve that speed the performance of an action.

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An accelerator key.

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A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.

Most hardware accelerators will directly render polygons to scenes therefore freeing up processor time for other tasks.

The Department operates two accelerators, causing charged atoms (ions) to reach 10% of the speed of light.

In 2006 a further three linear accelerators will be bought to bring the total at the new West of Scotland Cancer Center to 11.

There are exceptions - some special purpose chips have kept up with the pace, graphics accelerators being the obvious example.

Most hardware accelerators will directly render polygons to scenes freeing up processor time for other tasks.

This is called magnetic bremsstrahlung or synchrotron radiation (after radiation observed from particle accelerators by that name ).

A major component of modern linear accelerators which assists this technique is the multi-leaf collimator (MLC ).

Particle physics experiments are performed at accelerators where the products of head-on collisions between matter and antimatter are studied with huge detectors.

In order to deliver the radiation to the patient we use devices called medical linear accelerators, or " linacs " .

The Radiotherapy Department has eight linear accelerators and a Pantak superficial x-ray therapy unit.

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is to get two new linear accelerators to cut delays and improve treatment for cancer patients in Oxfordshire.

Even where new linear accelerators have been purchased, often with Lottery money, there are not always the staff to operate them.

This implied that there should be 48 additional linear accelerators in the UK, of which 22 would replace old cobalt machines.

Other UK accelerators The worldâs leading pulsed neutron and muon source is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

Particle Accelerators are devices used to accelerate charged elementary particle Accelerators are devices used to accelerate charged elementary particles or ions to high energies.

However, it is widely felt that the standard model is incomplete (hence the need to build ever more powerful particle accelerators ).

The Radiotherapy Department now boasts a total of ten linear accelerators.