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- noun Plural form of
accelerator .
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Examples
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From 55 grain accelerators up to 220 gr., there is a load for about anything you'll run up against.
I am looking to purchase a new rifle within the next 6 months. 2009
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From 55 grain accelerators up to 220 gr., there is a load for about anything you'll run up against.
I am looking to purchase a new rifle within the next 6 months. 2009
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If you click on this icon IE pops up a list of "accelerators" - tiny bits of code that perform operations on the selected text, such as translating it in Google
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now ,Josh Lowensohn 2010
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For example one of the new features on Internet Explorer 8 are "accelerators" - shortcuts that give instant access to add-on features.
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Some graduates of incubators, sometimes referred to as "accelerators," expressed similar views.
Some Fear a Glut in Tech 'Incubators' Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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[AS] And, it took almost 30 years for the prediction to be found to be correct by the discovery of these families of quarks in accelerators.
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Most common primary particles produced in accelerators.
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"Tobacco companies deliberately add chemicals called accelerators to cigarette paper or tobacco to make sure it does not extinguish itself."
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Prior to IE8 Beta 2 what we now call accelerators were called activities, and I'm pretty happy with the name change, because they truly do accelerate tasks we do all the time - like cutting and pasting an address from one page into another, say Live Maps, to get directions.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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New ways to access online services, including short cuts called accelerators from any web page.
The Test Bed 2009
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