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Definition of Dalton
1. Noun. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844).
Definition of Dalton
1. Proper noun. Any of several places in the north of England and in Scotland ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹
3. Proper noun. John Dalton, English chemist. ¹
4. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
5. Noun. (chemistry) a former unit of atomic mass equivalent to 1/16 the mass of an oxygen atom; now replaced by the atomic mass unit (or dalton) ¹
6. Noun. (context: physics) the atomic mass unit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dalton
1. a unit of atomic mass [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dalton
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Literary usage of Dalton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"Report of Ed. B. Dalton, MD Sanitary Superintendent of the Metropolitan Board of
... H. 18349 Dalton (HG) History of British Guiana; comprising a General ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"None of the declarations of Dalton are in a positive form. ... Henry Dalton,
being a British subject, never naturalized under the laws of either Mexico or ..."
3. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Dalton. Here's our card. We'll take a cab and question him at our office. ...
Dalton. Ah ! thanks to men like you. How little society is aware of what it ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Action by B. Prank Mebane against Robert Broadnax and wife and TH Chumley, in
which W. R, Dalton was made a party defendant From a decree for defendant ..."
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