Meaning & use
collider
A machine used in physics that accelerates particles to very high speeds and smashes them together for study.
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Scientists at the collider confirmed the existence of the particle after years of experiments.
The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful collider ever built.
A note on using this word
Collider is almost always used in the context of particle physics, most famously in the term 'Large Hadron Collider'.
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