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Definition of Geiger
1. Noun. German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geiger
Literary usage of Geiger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nome and Seward Peninsula: History, Description, Biographies and Stories by Edward Sanford Harrison (1905)
"Captain Geiger was born in Marion County, Ohio, June 14, 1865. ... These mining
operations were stopped by high water and Captain Geiger was then employed ..."
2. The Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., "the father of ovariotomy" by Mary Young Ridenbaugh (1894)
"His father, Anton Geiger, a classmate of Niemeyer in the University of ...
Two years later Mrs. Geiger died, leaving the boy penniless and an orphan in a ..."
3. The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail by the Daughters of the by Almira Sheffield (Peckham) Cordry, Daughters of the American Revolution Kansas (1915)
"FANNIE Geiger THOMPSON. "To write the history of a noble and useful woman, whose
influence and work were always for the happiness of her associates and ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1896)
"Said writ does not show that the said Geiger was in fact eligible to said office.
6. Said writ does not set up any facts upon which, because of the refusal ..."
5. Simplified Grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic by Edward Henry Palmer (1882)
"Geiger. —A PEEP AT MEXICO ; Narrative of a Journey across the Republic from ...
By JL Geiger, FRGS Demy 8vo, pp. 368, with Maps and 45 Original Photographs. ..."
6. The Reform Movement in Judaism by David Philipson (1907)
"CHAPTER III THE Geiger-TIKTIN AFFAIR THE all-absorbing episode in German Jewish
religious life at the close of the fourth decade of the nineteenth century ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland by Richard Wordsworth Gill, Oliver Miller, Maryland Court of Appeals (1850)
"Geiger vs. Green.—1846. dismissing the bill of complaint. ... CHRISTOPHER Geiger,
AND JOSEPH AND EDWARD PATTERSON, ET AL., vs. RICHARD GREEN.—December 1846. ..."
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