Wakefield

  1. Proper noun.  An industrial city in northern England; traditionally a centre for the cloth industry.
  2. Proper noun.  (surname, habitational) .
  3. Noun.  (physics) A small area of very strong potential gradient, in a laser beam or plasma stream, used to accelerate charged particles in a plasma wakefield accelerator.

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