HERTZIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work

Example:

Hertzian discoveries

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Hertz (German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975))

Derivation:

Hertz (German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894))

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