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Noun: collider  ku'lI-du(r)
  1. An accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on
    "The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider"

Derived forms: colliders

Type of: accelerator, atom smasher [informal], particle accelerator

Encyclopedia: Collider