Definition of Kirchhoff

1. Noun. German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887).

Exact synonyms: G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirchhoff

Kioways
Kip
Kipling
Kiplingesque
Kiplingian
Kiplingism
Kiplingisms
Kipp's apparatus
Kiput
Kira
Kiracofe
Kiran
Kirby
Kirby-Bauer test
Kirby calculus
Kirchhoff (current term)
Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's current law
Kirchhoff's laws
Kirchhoff's voltage law
Kirchner
Kirchnerism
Kirchoff's circuit laws
Kirchoff's current law
Kirchoff's voltage law
Kirghiz
Kirghizia
Kirghizstan
Kirgiz
Kirgizia

Literary usage of Kirchhoff

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: From by Isaac Todhunter (1893)
"In a second paper (see our Art. 1319) Kirchhoff states that although the theory supposes Ka constant, it really varies immensely with the value of vU /Aty ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"In thus examining the two spectra, Kirchhoff found that dark lines occur in ... Kirchhoff proceeds to calculate, from the average distance between each of ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Mag., 1856) and Kirchhoff (Pogg. Ann., 1857), while practical researches of the greatest importance to telegraphy have been made on Ibis and kindred ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
Kirchhoff will be remembered, side by side with ... Landeskunde Ton Deutschland For twenty years Kirchhoff edited the well-known collection of monographs, ..."

5. Scientific Papers by Peter Guthrie Tait (1900)
"Five years ago his collected papers (Gesammelte Abhandlungen von G. Kirchhoff, Leipzig, 1882) were published in a single volume. His lectures on Dynamics ..."

6. The Spectroscope and Its Applications by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1873)
"and Stewart and Angstrom have led, and which has been established by the experiments of Foucault, Kirchhoff, and Bunsen, may be summed up as follows : Gases ..."

7. Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1873)
"APPENDIX C.—Kirchhoff on the Variation of the Spectra of certain Elements. APPENDIX D.—Ignited Gases under certain circumstances give continuous Spectra. ..."

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