supercollider
noun
su·per·col·lid·er
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Definition of supercollider
: a very large collider capable of accelerating particles to very high energies
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In 2012, the worldâs biggest supercollider discovered the Higgs boson, completing the Standard Model of particle physics. — Quanta Magazine, "Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?," 14 June 2016 The need to upgrade CMS comes from a recent upgrade of the supercollider itself. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Large Hadron Collider Gets âOpen Heart Surgeryâ," 3 Mar. 2017 Thatâs because back in April 2016 another marten, aka CERN Weasel, made it into the supercollider and chewed its way through a 66,000 volt transformer. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Museum Displays the Weasel that Brought Down Particle Physics," 1 Feb. 2017 Maybe somebody should have given those physicists a big Supercollider to play with, to keep them out of trouble⊠— Bruce Sterling, WIRED, "I Blame the Physicists," 19 Nov. 2008 Thatâs because back in April 2016 another marten, aka CERN Weasel, made it into the supercollider and chewed its way through a 66,000 volt transformer. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Museum Displays the Weasel that Brought Down Particle Physics," 1 Feb. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'supercollider.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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