PARTICLE BEAM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("particle beam" is a kind of...):

beam; electron beam; ray (a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particle beam"):

ion beam; ionic beam (a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed)

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