NOUN | person | Oliver Heaviside, Heaviside | English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications |
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Meaning | English 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). | |
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Synonym | Heaviside | |
Instance of | electrical engineer | A person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity |
physicist | A scientist trained in physics | |
Spanish | Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside | |
Catalan | Oliver Heaviside |
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