bevatron

[ bev-uh-tron ]

noun

, Physics.

1. an accelerator in which protons are raised to energies of several billion electron-volts by modulating the frequency of the accelerating voltage.

bevatron

/ ˈbɛvəˌtrɒn /

noun

1. a proton synchrotron at the University of California

Word History and Origins

Origin of bevatron¹

1945–50; BeV + -a- connective + -tron

Word History and Origins

Origin of bevatron¹

C20: from BeV + -tron

Example Sentences

Today, we are never just looking at the Bevatron.

From Los Angeles Times

This collection includes “Why I Write,” a straightforward accounting of Didion’s craft adapted from a lecture she gave at Berkeley, wherein she looks up at the Bevatron, the particle accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley lab.

From Los Angeles Times

“When I say that I was wondering if the lights were on in the Bevatron you might immediately suspect, if you deal in ideas at all, that I was registering the Bevatron as a political symbol, thinking in shorthand about the military-industrial complex and its role in the university community, but you would be wrong,” she says.

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“I was only wondering if the lights were on in the Bevatron, and how they looked. A physical fact.”

From Los Angeles Times

How desperately Didion wanted us to believe she was just “looking” at the Bevatron.

From Los Angeles Times