Definition of Heaviside

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Oliver Heaviside
Generic synonyms: Electrical Engineer, Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaviside

Hearn
Hearst
Heart Break Kid
Heart of Dixie
Heath-Edwards grades
Heath Robinson
Heathenry
Heather
Heathrow
Heathrow injection
Heaven
Heavenly City
Heavenly Father
Heavenly Jewel
Heavens
Heaviside (current term)
Heaviside layer
Heaviside unit function
Heavy Ion Beams
Heb.
Hebb's rule
Hebbel
Hebbian
Hebdomum
Hebe
Hebei
Hebei province
Hebeloma
Heberden's angina
Heberden's nodes

Literary usage of Heaviside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Memoir on the Indian Surveys by Clements Robert Markham (1878)
"Captain Heaviside was subsequently appointed to complete the operations. After some preliminary observations at Dehra and at Massari he went to Kaliana, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"VI. " On the Transformation of Optical Wave-Surfaces by Homogeneous Strain." By OLIVER Heaviside, FRS Received December 20, 1893. ..."

3. Vector Analysis: An Introduction to Vector-methods and Their Various by Joseph George Coffin (1911)
"Oliver Heaviside, the English electrician, used a notation similar to Hamilton's, but rendered it unsymmetrical by discarding the S for the scalar product ..."

4. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1905)
"... Clark, John Heaviside—(ontinued. 1818. 6»8 View of Wade, near Havant, Hants. 1825. ... Heaviside ..."

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