charles townes

1. 1.

   United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)

   SynonymsTownesCharles Hard Townes

   Broaderphysicist

Questions about charles townes

What does charles townes mean?

charles townes means "United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)".

What is another word for charles townes?

Close synonyms include Townes, Charles Hard Townes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charles townes a common word?

charles townes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.