MARCONI

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

1. Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937)

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

• MARCONI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Guglielmo Marconi; Marconi

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

Every last one of them, semaphore, lamp code, Marconi—a copy, mind you, not the original.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)