Definition of Cockcroft

1. Noun. British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockcroft

Cochin China diarrhoea
Cochin fowl
Cochin fowls
Cochise
Cochlearia
Cochlearia officinalis
Cochlearius
Cochlearius cochlearius
Cochliomyia
Cochran
Cockaigne
Cockayne
Cockayne's disease
Cockayne's syndrome
Cockburn
Cockcroft (current term)
Cockcroft-Walton accelerator
Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier
Cockcroft and Walton accelerator
Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier
Cockerney
Cockett communicating perforating veins
Cockney
Cockney rhyming slang
Cockneydom
Cockneyish
Cockneys
Cocoa
Cocoliche
Cocopa

Literary usage of Cockcroft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tank in Action by Douglas Gordon Browne (1920)
"CHAPTER X. OPERATION AND THE Cockcroft. I. THE result of the first day's fighting at Ypres was on the whole satisfactory. The left of the attack had been ..."

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