HyperDic: heaviside

English > 1 sense of the word Heaviside:
NOUNperson Heaviside, Oliver HeavisideEnglish physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications
English > Heaviside: 1 sense > noun 1, person
MeaningEnglish physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925).
SynonymOliver Heaviside
Instance ofelectrical engineerA person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
physicistA scientist trained in physics
SpanishHeaviside, Oliver Heaviside
CatalanOliver Heaviside

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