Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work;
- Example: "Hertzian discoveries"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hertzian \Hertz"i*an\, a.
Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Hertzian telegraphy, telegraphy by means of the Hertzian
waves; wireless telegraphy.
H. waves, electric waves; -- so called because Hertz was
the first to investigate them systematically. His
apparatus consisted essentially in an oscillator for
producing the waves, and a resonator for detecting them.
The waves were found to have the same velocity as light,
and to undergo reflection, refraction, and polarization.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hertzian
adj 1: of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his
work; "Hertzian discoveries"