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HEAVISIDE

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Overview

HEAVISIDE (noun)
  The noun HEAVISIDE has 1 sense:

1. English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


HEAVISIDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside

Instance hypernyms:

electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)


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