Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrostatic generator in which an electric charge is either removed from or transferred to a large hollow spherical electrode by a rapidly moving belt, accelerating particles to energies of about ten million electron volts.
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- noun physics a
device in which anelectric charge is built up on a largespherical electrode by means of a rapidly movingbelt
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- noun electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, (1901–1967), American physicist.]
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Named after its inventor Robert Jemison Van de Graaff.
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