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Definition of Maxwell

1. Noun. A cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss.

2. Noun. Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879).

Definition of Maxwell

1. Proper noun. (surname Scottish habitational dot=) from Mackeswell near Melrose. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), transferred from the surname. ¹

3. Noun. (physics) A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Maxwell

1. a unit of magnetic flux [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maxwell

Maxim Maxim-Gilbert sequencing Maxim Gorki Maxim gun Maximilian Maximilian's sunflower Maximilien Paul Emile Littre Maximillian Maximow's stain Maxine

Maxmilien de Bethune Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre Maxonian Maxonians Maxostoma Maxwell (current term) Maxwell's demon Maxwell's equations Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law Maxwell Anderson

Maxwellian Maxwellians Maxy Maxzide May May-Grunwald stain May-Hegglin anomaly May-September romance May-September romances May-White syndrome

Literary usage of Maxwell

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Action by RA Maxwell continued by Mrs. RA Maxwell, administratrix, ... HILL, JCC Persons and RA Maxwell entered Into the following written contract ..."

2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Maxwell turned and moved up a little on EDITH'S entrance, remaining a Utile R. of с ... Maxwell. Well we don't have so many as they do over at the Treasury. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1859)
"I promise to pay A. Jj. Maxwell, should noi l:iki: • . ... 10 that AL Maxwell was interested in the note to that amount, ^d°e*clt!(l)'1<j '"^ and no more. ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to by James Boswell (1884)
"Dr. Maxwell,1 of Falkland, in Ireland, some time assistant preacher at the Temple, and for many years the social friend of Johnson, who spoke of him with a ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"188 US Among the grounds of objection filed in the probate court by the Maxwell Land Grant Company and the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company, ..."

6. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 Physicist, born at Edinburgh, June 13, 1831, was educated there at the Academy and the University, and ere he was fifteen ..."

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