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.
[After Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901-1967), American physicist.]
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