bevatron

See also: bévatron

English

Etymology

From BeV +‎ -a- +‎ -tron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/

Noun

bevatron (plural bevatrons)

1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
   • 1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1:

     Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.

   • 1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research:

     By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.

   • 1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment:

     In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.

Descendants

• → Polish: bewatron
• → Russian: беватро́н (bevatrón)

Translations

Translations

French: bévatron (fr) m Polish: bewatron m Romanian: bevatron n Russian: беватро́н (ru) m (bevatrón) Serbo-Croatian: Latin: bȅvatrōn (sh) m Cyrillic: бе̏ватро̄н m

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bévatron.

Noun

bevatron n (plural bevatroane)

1. (physics) bevatron

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bevatron	bevatronul		bevatroane	bevatroanele
genitive-dative	bevatron	bevatronului		bevatroane	bevatroanelor
vocative	bevatronule			bevatroanelor