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say it: GAHY-gur
geiger is a noun meaning "German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)". It is pronounced /ˈɡaɪɡɚ/ — GAHY-gur. It carries one recorded sense.
German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
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 geiger 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.