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Definition of Heaviside
1. Noun. 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).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaviside
Literary usage of Heaviside
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Clements Robert Markham (1878)
"Captain Heaviside was subsequently appointed to complete the operations. After some
preliminary observations at Dehra and at Massari he went to Kaliana, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"VI. " On the Transformation of Optical Wave-Surfaces by Homogeneous Strain."
By OLIVER Heaviside, FRS Received December 20, 1893. ..."
3. Vector Analysis: An Introduction to Vector-methods and Their Various by Joseph George Coffin (1911)
"Oliver Heaviside, the English electrician, used a notation similar to Hamilton's,
but rendered it unsymmetrical by discarding the S for the scalar product ..."
4. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1905)
"... Clark, John Heaviside—(ontinued. 1818. 6»8 View of Wade, near Havant, Hants.
1825. ... Heaviside ..."
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