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MILLIKAN

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MILLIKAN (noun)
  The noun MILLIKAN has 1 sense:

1. United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


MILLIKAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Millikan; Robert Andrews Millikan

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)


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