oliver heaviside

1. 1.

   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)

   SynonymsHeaviside

   Broaderphysicistelectrical engineer

Questions about oliver heaviside

What does oliver heaviside mean?

oliver 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)".

What is another word for oliver heaviside?

Close synonyms include 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 oliver heaviside a common word?

oliver 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.