Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bevatron

/ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-va-tron
IPA: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: BeV
Suffix: -a-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/
British English: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/

Inflected Forms

bevatrons (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce bevatron?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/.
What does bevatron mean?: A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
Where does bevatron come from?: From BeV + -a- + -tron.

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