kirchhoff

1. 1.

   German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887)

   SynonymsG. R. KirchhoffGustav Robert Kirchhoff

   Broaderphysicist

Other forms of kirchhoff

plural

kirchhoffs·

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 kirchhoff

What does kirchhoff mean?

kirchhoff means "German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887)".

How many syllables are in kirchhoff?

kirchhoff has 2 syllables: kirch-hoff. The stress falls on "kirch". In IPA it is /ˈkɝkhɔf/.

What is another word for kirchhoff?

Close synonyms include G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff. 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 kirchhoff a common word?

kirchhoff 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.