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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"