storage ring

Noun
  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 (synset 104335841)
    is a type of: container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
    is a part of: accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator - a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles

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