say it: bur-NOO-lee
bernoulli is a noun meaning "Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bernoulli come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.