1. German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887); [syn: Fechner, Gustav Theodor Fechner]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Fechner
n 1: German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived
Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber
(1801-1887) [syn: Fechner, Gustav Theodor Fechner]