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Definition of Cyclotron

1. Noun. An accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles.

Definition of Cyclotron

1. Noun. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic and alternating electric fields. ¹

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Definition of Cyclotron

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cyclotron

1. Particle accelerator in which a magnetic field causes particles to orbit in circles, and an oscillating electric field accelerates the particles. (09 Oct 1997)

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