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beampipe

noun

Etymology

From beam + pipe.

  1. inherited from pīpian
  2. inherited from pipen
  3. derived from pipa
  4. derived from pipe
  5. derived from pipire
  6. derived from *pīpa✻
  7. inherited from *pīpā✻
  8. inherited from pīpe
  9. inherited from pipe
  10. compounded as beampipe — “beam + pipe”

Definitions

  1. The evacuated chamber through which a beam of particles is accelerated in a particle…

    The evacuated chamber through which a beam of particles is accelerated in a particle accelerator

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beampipe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA