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ROENTGEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)
Synonyms:
Roentgen; Rontgen; Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen; Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen
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Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("roentgen" is a kind of...):
radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)
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