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THOMSON
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• THOMSON (noun)
The noun THOMSON has 4 senses:
1. United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)
2. United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)
3. English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975)
4. English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
Familiarity information: THOMSON used as a noun is uncommon.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Thomson; Virgil Garnett Thomson; Virgil Thomson
Instance hypernyms:
composer (someone who composes music as a profession)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Elihu Thomson; Thomson
Instance hypernyms:
electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
George Paget Thomson; Sir George Paget Thomson; Thomson
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 4
Meaning:
English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Joseph John Thomson; Sir Joseph John Thomson; Thomson
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Context examples
And books! Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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