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• debye
  debye

  noun

  a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10 –18 statcoulomb-centimeters. D
• Debye
  Debye

  noun

  Peter Joseph Wilhelm 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.

debye

¹ American  

[dih-bahy] / dɪˈbaɪ /

noun

Electricity.

1. a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10 –18 statcoulomb-centimeters. D

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Debye ² American  

[de-bahy] / dɛˈbaɪ /

noun

1. Peter Joseph Wilhelm 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.

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Debye British  

/ deˈbɛiə /

noun

1. Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments

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Etymology

Origin of debye

First recorded in 1930–35; named after P. J. W. Debye