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HEAVISIDE
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I. (noun)
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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)
Synonyms:
Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
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