Link Centre Dictionary

Cockcroft

cockc·roft

uncommon

noun

1.

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

Synonyms

Origin

Topographic surname from Old English cocc (“cock, rooster”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Related words

Word family

Broader terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.