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Definition of Magnon
1. a quantum of spin wave energy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnon
Literary usage of Magnon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Human Species by Armand Quatrefages de Bréau (1890)
"THE CRO-magnon RACE. L IN the year 1858, in the valley of the ... The Cro-magnon
bones thus became classic almost within a day of their discovery ; and M. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the structure of the cranium the Cro-magnon race on the whole resembled the
modern European. Local variations are recognizable. It is not impossible that ..."
3. Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early by William Boyd Dawkins (1874)
"The human skeletons in the cave of Cro-magnon, at Les Eyzies, ... Section across
the Valley of the Vezere, aud through the rock of Cro-magnon. ..."
4. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"The present people of Dordogne agree with but one other type of men known to
anthropologists, namely, the ancient Cro-magnon race. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"(A description of prehistoric Negro, Oro magnon, and other human remains in
southern France). Imprimerie de Monaco, 1908. 3. The Basis of Ascendancy. ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"magnon (US) 71 Fed. 293, 294, 18 C. О. A. 43. Watch and chain. A watch and chain
belonging to a cigar- maker are not exempt as "tools or instruments" used ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"On the Atje of Uie Human Remains in the Cave of Cro-magnon in the Valley of the
Vezere. Dr. PM DUNCAN, FRS On the Discovery of Flint Implements of ..."
8. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... thence east to Asia and north to Europe—The Cro-magnon and other early European
races affiliated to the fair Berbers of Mauritania—West Europe occupied ..."
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