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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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);
[syn: Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Oliver Heaviside
    n 1: 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) [syn: Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside]