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Van De Graaff Generator

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Noun

1. electrostatic generator, electrostatic machine, van de graaff generator, wimshurst machine

electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Van De Graaff Generator

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noun
a device for producing high electrostatic potentials (up to 15 million volts), consisting of a hollow metal sphere on which a charge is accumulated from a continuous moving belt of insulating material: used in particle accelerators

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Van De Graaff Generator

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an electrostatic generator using a movable insulating belt to produce potentials of millions of volts

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Van De Graaff Generator

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n.
An electrostatic generator in which an electric charge is either removed from or transferred to a large hollow spherical electrode by a rapidly moving belt, accelerating particles to energies of about ten million electron volts.

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