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EDISON
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• EDISON (noun)
The noun EDISON has 1 sense:
1. United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
Familiarity information: EDISON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Edison; Thomas Alva Edison; Thomas Edison
Instance hypernyms:
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
Context examples
According to virologist Edison Luiz Durigon, professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo and leader of the team that developed the kit, the test is between 92 and 100 per cent accurate.
(New blood test to detect Zika approved in Brazil, SciDev.Net)
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