different between linac vs cyclinac

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Contraction of linear accelerator.

linac (plural linacs)

(physics) A linear particle accelerator.
- 2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (p.49)
  Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California.

Blend of cyclotron +? linac

cyclinac (plural cyclinacs)

(physics) A particle accelerator in the form of a high-gradient linac driven by a large-current cyclotron

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