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accelerator
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accelerator: see particle accelerator particle accelerator, apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce beams of energetic charged particles and to direct them against various targets. Such machines, popularly called atom smashers, are needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies
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(1) A key combination such as Alt-G or Ctrl-Shift H that is used to activate a task.

(2) An incubator that expects to develop the company considerably faster than normal. See incubator.

(3) See Web page acceleration, graphics accelerator and accelerator board.

(hardware)accelerator - Additional hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal CPU. Examples include graphics accelerators and floating-point accelerators.
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