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Noun: storage ring
  1. Container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used

Derived forms: storage rings

Type of: container

Part of: accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator

Encyclopedia: Storage ring