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Circular Accelerator

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circular accelerator [′sər·kyə·lər ak′sel·ə‚rād·ər]
Circular Accelerator 

(or cyclic accelerator), a particle accelerator in which the particles repeatedly travel through the same accelerating electrodes and move in orbits that are close to circles or spirals. (SeeACCELERATOR, PARTICLE.)
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