CAVENDISH

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• CAVENDISH (noun)
  The noun CAVENDISH has 1 sense:

1. British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

  Familiarity information: CAVENDISH used as a noun is very rare.

• CAVENDISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cavendish; Henry Cavendish

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

The press marked E was unlocked; and I took out the drawer, had it filled up with straw and tied in a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had imagined that we were bound for Baker Street, but Holmes stopped the cab at the corner of Cavendish Square.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recent developments in genetic modification (GM) technology include a way to prevent the popular Cavendish banana variety from being wiped out by the Fusarium wilt fungus.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Dr Michael Price of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory measured the distance that the photo-exited states travelled, which reached distances of 200 nanometres – 20 times further than was previously possible.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

"What we've done is take a gene from a banana that originated in Papua New Guinea and is naturally very high in pro-vitamin A but has small bunches, and inserted it into a Cavendish banana," Professor Dale said.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Loading the nanoparticles into the microdroplets allows us to control the shape and size of the clusters, giving us dramatic colour changes, said Dr Andrew Salmon from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, the study’s co-first author.

(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)

What would make a quantum computer so powerful is its ability to scale exponentially, said co-author Hugo Lepage, a PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, who performed the theoretical work for the current study.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

As you will readily understand, a specialist who aims high is compelled to start in one of a dozen streets in the Cavendish Square quarter, all of which entail enormous rents and furnishing expenses.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we can learn to control the disorder even more precisely, we could expect further LED or solar cell performance improvements – and even push well beyond silicon with tailored tandem solar cells comprising two different colour perovskite layers that together can harvest even more power from the sun than one layer alone, said Dr Sam Stranks, University Lecturer in Energy at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and the Cavendish Laboratory.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)