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debye

1 American  
[dih-bahy] / dɪˈbaɪ /

noun

Electricity.

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

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.

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

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