heaviside

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   English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)

   SynonymsOliver Heaviside

   Broaderphysicistelectrical engineer

Other forms of heaviside

plural

heavisides·

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 heaviside

What does heaviside mean?

heaviside means "English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)".

How many syllables are in heaviside?

heaviside has 4 syllables: he-a-vi-side. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for heaviside?

Close synonyms include Oliver Heaviside. 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 heaviside a common word?

heaviside is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.