WEBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Weber mean? 

• WEBER (noun)
  The noun WEBER has 6 senses:

1. a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells

2. German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)

3. United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)

4. German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)

5. German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)

6. German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)

  Familiarity information: WEBER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Wb; weber

Hypernyms ("weber" is a kind of...):

flux unit; magnetic flux unit (a measure of the strength of a magnetic field per unit area)

Meronyms (parts of "weber"):

maxwell; Mx (a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss)

Sense 2

Meaning:

German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Weber; Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Max Weber; Weber

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 4

Meaning:

German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Max Weber; Weber

Instance hypernyms:

sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)

Sense 5

Meaning:

German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber; Carl Maria von Weber; Weber

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)

Sense 6

Meaning:

German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

E. H. Weber; Ernst Heinrich Weber; Weber

Instance hypernyms:

physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)

 Context examples 

ACVRL1 deficiency causes hemorrhagic telangiectasia type 2, which is also also known as Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome 2.

(ACVRL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include neurofibromatosis, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, and Sturge-Weber syndrome.

(Overgrowth syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

"Human impacts such as overfishing and pollution lead to changes in reef structure," says Laura Weber of Woods Hole, lead author of the paper.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)

Representative examples include neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, and Sturge-Weber syndrome.

(Phakomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A coil with an inductance of one henry requires a flux of one weber for each ampere of induced current.

(Henry, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples of overgrowth syndromes include neurofibromatosis, Sotos syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, Weaver syndrome, Proteus syndrome, Sturge-Weber syndrome, and fragile X syndrome.

(Overgrowth syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

"Removal of algae grazers such as herbivorous fish and sea urchins leads to increases in macroalgae, which then leads to increased organic carbon, contributing to the degradation of coral reefs," Weber adds.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)