Lexic.us

Definition of Whistler

1. Noun. United States painter (1834-1903).

2. Noun. Someone who makes a loud high sound.

3. Noun. Large North American mountain marmot.

4. Noun. Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions.

5. Noun. Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call.

Definition of Whistler

1. n. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

2. n. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

Definition of Whistler

1. Noun. Someone or something that whistles. ¹

2. Noun. A bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species). ¹

3. Noun. A whistling marmot. ¹

4. Noun. A goldeneye. ¹

5. Noun. (physics) An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Whistler

1. one that whistles [n -S] - See also: whistles

Medical Definition of Whistler

1. A wave in a plasma which propagates parallel to the magnetic field produced by currents outside the plasma at a frequency less than that of the electron cyclotron frequency, and which is circularly polarized, rotating in the same sense as the electrons in the plasma (about the magnetic field), also known as the electron cyclotron wave. Whistlers are so-named because of their characteristic descending audio-frequency tone, which is a result of the dispersion relation for the wave (higher frequencies travel somewhat faster). This tone was frequently picked up during World War I by large ground-loop antennas (which were actually being used to spy on enemy field telephone signals). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Whistler

whistle in the dark whistle note whistle past the graveyard whistle pig whistle stop whistle up whistle walk whistleable whistleblower whistleblowers

whistleblowing whistled whistled Dixie whistlefish whistlelike whistler (current term) whistlers whistles whistles Dixie whistlestop

whistlestops whistlewing whistlewings whistlewood whistling whistling Dixie whistling buoy whistling deformity whistling duck

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