English
Etymology
Contraction of linear accelerator.
Pronunciation
IPA|/ˈlɪnæk/
Noun
en-noun
#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)
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