Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cockcroft_and_walton_accelerator

1 sense of cockcroft and walton accelerator

Sense 1
Cockcroft and Walton accelerator, Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier -- (a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube)
       => accelerator, particle accelerator, atom smasher -- (a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles)