English Explanatory Dictionary

Cockcroft-Walton generator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An electric circuit that generates a high direct current voltage from a low-voltage alternating current.

Word forms

Cockcroft-Walton generator Cockcroft-Walton generators

Etymology

Named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator.

Synonyms

CW generator Greinacher multiplier
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