Definition of Fresnel

1. Noun. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).

Exact synonyms: Augustin Jean Fresnel
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Definition of Fresnel

1. Noun. (physics) A unit of frequency equal to 1012 or one terahertz ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fresnel

1. a unit of frequency [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fresnel

freshpersons
freshwater
freshwater bream
freshwater clam
freshwater eel
freshwater fish
freshwater limpet
freshwater marsh
freshwater mussel
freshwater pearl mussel
freshwaters
freshwoman
freshwomen
fresnel (current term)
fresnels
fresnoite
fresolimumab
fress
fressed
fresses
fressing
fressreflex
fret
fret saw
fretboard
fretboards
fretful
fretfull

Literary usage of Fresnel

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"XXX, Washington 1912), and other publications of the department. fresnel ... In 1825 fresnel was elected Fellow Royal Society of London, ..."

2. Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1871)
"To distinguish one lighthouse on the coast from another, the fresnel light is ... In the revolving fresnel light, the triangular prismatic hoops above and ..."

3. Explorations in Bible Lands During the 19th Century by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, Immanuel Benzinger, Fritz Hommel, Georg Steindorff (1903)
"We cannot close the brief description of Layard's fruitless efforts in Babylonia without quoting a remark which, on the authority of fresnel,1 he is said to ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"To find the form in which a disturbance will spread, fresnel proceeds as follows. ... The portion RQ, of the elastic force of the ether, fresnel neglects, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"fresnel announced his conclusion that the observed facts in regard to the ... Verdet points out that fresnel arrived at his hypothesis of transverse ..."

6. Letters from the East by William Cullen Bryant (1869)
"The invention of fresnel is one of the most beautiful examples we have of that skill ... By a most ingenious arrangement of prisms, fresnel collected these ..."

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