cockcroft and walton accelerator

Noun cockcroft and walton accelerator has 1 sense

• cockcroft and walton accelerator(n = noun.artifact) cockcroft and walton voltage multiplier, cockcroft-walton accelerator, cockcroft-walton voltage multiplier - a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube;
is a kind of accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator