Crookesian

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adjective

Of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.

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Meanings

adjectiveCrookesian (comparative more Crookesian, superlative most Crookesian)

comparative more Crookesian · superlative most Crookesian

  1. Of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.

    Thomson promoted the Crookesian view of cathode rays as particulate against the apparent counterevidence presented by Phillip Lenard that such particles were not stopped by an encounter with metal[…]

    2004, Jed Z. Buchenwald, Andrew Warwick, Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics, page 107

Origin

From Crookes + -ian.

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APA

Crookesian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crookesian

MLA

“Crookesian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crookesian. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Crookesian,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Crookesian.

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