cavendish

1. 1.

   British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

   SynonymsHenry Cavendish

   Broaderchemistphysicist

Other forms of cavendish

plural

cavendishes·

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.

Questions about cavendish

What does cavendish mean?

cavendish means "British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)".

How many syllables are in cavendish?

cavendish has 3 syllables: cav-en-dish. The stress falls on "cav". In IPA it is /ˈkævəndɪʃ/.

What is another word for cavendish?

Close synonyms include Henry Cavendish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cavendish a common word?

cavendish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.