Particle Beam

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PB
Pronunciation
/ˈpɑrtɪkəl bim/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Military

Examples in Context

  1. The power source is not microwave radiation but is either a laser beam or a charged particle beam.
  2. Particle beam weapons, based on charged orneutral particles, to affect biological targets;
  3. Fortunately, when a laser or charged particle beam is sent through a plasma, interaction with the plasma can create a longitudinal electric field.
  4. The Illuminati used particle beam accelerator weapons in pulse form to blow it up as it neared Jupiter.
  5. There is no way that you could irradiate a crystal of nickel with a single beam of x-rays and get that circular ring pattern if the electron beam were behaving as a particle beam only.

Other meanings of PB