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prad

[ prad ]

noun

, Australian.
  1. Informal. horse.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of prad1

1790–1800; metathetic variant of Dutch paard horse (cognate with German Pferd ) ≪ Late Latin paraverēdus post horse for lesser highways. See palfrey
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Example Sentences

But the lower energies used by PRad circumvent the problem.

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To further improve precision, PRad injected its hydrogen molecules directly into the vacuum pipe that carries the electron beam, rather than keeping it in a metal container as many previous experiments had done.

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But Jan Bernauer, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who has led earlier scattering measurements that found a larger proton, is not entirely convinced by PRad’s results.

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PRad shoots a beam of electrons at hydrogen molecules, and measures how some of the electrons are deflected.

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Ashot Gasparian, a particle and nuclear physicist at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro who is the spokesperson for PRad, thinks he can still upgrade his experiment to further improve its precision.

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