SPEAR

SPEAR

SPEAR was a collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It began running in 1972, colliding electrons and positrons with an energy of . During the 1970s, experiments at the accelerator played a key role in particle physics research, including the discovery of the meson, many charmonium states, and the discovery of the tau .

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spear

Noun

  1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
  2. A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
  3. A sharp tool used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
  4. an illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
  5. a running tackle on an opponent performed in professional wrestling.
  6. A spearman.
  7. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
  8. The feather of a horse.
  9. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
  10. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
    asparagus and broccoli spears

Verb

  1. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object. To make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
  2. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.


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