"linac" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of linear accelerator.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "linacs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "linac (plural linacs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, page 49",
          "text": "Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A linear particle accelerator."
      ],
      "id": "en-linac-en-noun-RvSeW2VV",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "linear",
          "linear"
        ],
        [
          "particle accelerator",
          "particle accelerator"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A linear particle accelerator."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪnæk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "linac"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of linear accelerator.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "linacs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "linac (plural linacs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English syllabic abbreviations",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Physics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, page 49",
          "text": "Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A linear particle accelerator."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "linear",
          "linear"
        ],
        [
          "particle accelerator",
          "particle accelerator"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A linear particle accelerator."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪnæk/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "linac"
}