Appleton

[ ap-uhl-tuhn ]

noun

1. Sir Edward Victor, 1892–1965, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1947.
2. a city in E Wisconsin.

Appleton

/ ˈæpəltən /

noun

1. AppletonSir Edward (Victor)18921965MEnglishSCIENCE: physicist Sir Edward ( Victor ). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947

Example Sentences

On passing into the Appleton ownership it had been enlarged and beautified and named "Holbrook Hall."

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In these bequests the legators fulfilled the wishes of their brother, Horace Appleton Haven, as expressed half a century ago.

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After graduating from high school, she did work for the Appleton Crescent in the capacity of news collector and reporter.

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It was written by Nathaniel Appleton, a co-worker with Otis, and an advanced thinker on the subject of emancipation.

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Now then, will Harper or Appleton, or Putnam give me $200,000 for those debts and my two-thirds interest in the firm?

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