cockcroft

What does cockcroft mean?

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

How many syllables are in cockcroft?

cockcroft has 2 syllables and divides as cock-croft under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cockcroft?

Close synonyms include Sir John Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. 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 cockcroft a common word?

cockcroft 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cockcroft come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.