Bridgman

[ brij-muhn ]

noun

1. Percy Williams, 1882–1961, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1946.

Bridgman

/ ˈbrɪdʒmən /

noun

1. BridgmanPercy Williams18821961MUSSCIENCE: physicist Percy Williams . 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics

Example Sentences

How was he and the brothers Bridgman found guilty, without any physical evidence tying them to this heinous crime?

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As Mr. Mason has added an &c., may we not add to these respected names, that of honest old Bridgman?

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Fort Bridgman faced the Licking river on the west, the stockade extending eastward.

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The same results would, as far as we know, be obtained from others in the same unhappy conditions as Laura Bridgman.

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Dr. Bridgman said, with the usual qualification about complications, that the man probably would get well.

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She had read his account of Laura Bridgman, and remembered vaguely that she was deaf and blind, yet had been educated.

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