HyperDic: nikola_tesla

English > 1 sense of the expression Nikola Tesla:
NOUNperson Nikola Tesla, TeslaUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
English > Nikola Tesla: 1 sense > noun 1, person
MeaningUnited States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943).
SynonymTesla
Instance ofelectrical engineerA person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
inventor, discoverer, artificersomeone who is the first to think of or make something
SpanishNikola Tesla
CatalanNikola Tesla

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