VAN DER WAALS

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• VAN DER WAALS (noun)
  The noun VAN DER WAALS has 1 sense:

1. Dutch physicist (1837-1923)

  Familiarity information: VAN DER WAALS used as a noun is very rare.

• VAN DER WAALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dutch physicist (1837-1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Johannes Diderik van der Waals; Johannes van der Waals; van der Waals

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Magnetic graphene, or iron trithiohypophosphate (FePS3), is from a family of materials known as van der Waals materials, and was first synthesised in the 1960s.

(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)

Affecting biological factors or systems, a Biophysical Process is a subatomic, atomic, or molecular process that involves passive, physical movement; attraction or repulsion (electrostatic, van der Waals, gradient, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, etc.); radiation interaction; or non-enzymatic formation of covalent bonds.

(Biophysical Process, NCI Thesaurus)