linac
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Contraction of linear accelerator.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɪnæk/
[edit] Noun
linac (plural linacs)
- (physics) A linear particle accelerator.
- 2004: Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 49)
