cockcroft-walton accelerator

Noun cockcroft-walton accelerator has 1 sense

• cockcroft-walton accelerator(n = noun.artifact) cockcroft and 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; Array
is a kind of accelerator, atom smasher, particle accelerator