Eckert

[ ek-ert ]

/ ˈɛk ərt /

noun

John Pres·per [pres-per] /ˈprɛs pər/, 1919–95, U.S. engineer and computer pioneer.

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At the end, the officers concluded that no drugs were present, and Eckert was sent home.
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Eckert said it was a woman who had come a long distance expecting to go down to the army to see her husband.
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Eckert began to grow communicative; he grew more and more at his ease, and more and more talkative and sociable.
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Mr. Period came to Shopton, and declared it was his belief that his rivals, Turbot and Eckert, had had a hand in the matter.
Tom Swift and his Wizard Camera|Victor Appleton

Eckert van Hombergh also had some good initials, in which the ground is completely covered with a light floral design.
Early Illustrated Books|Alfred W. Pollard
Eckert received us heartily—a pleasant-spoken, gentle-mannered creature.
Roughing It|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

British Dictionary definitions for eckert

Eckert

/ (ˈɛkət) /

noun

John Presper. 1919–95, US electronics engineer: built the first electronic computer with John W. Mauchly in 1946

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Eckert

[ ĕk′ərt ]

John Presper 1919-1995

American engineer who contributed to the development of ENIAC (Electronic Numeral Integrator and Calculator), the first electronic computer (1946). He later helped develop one of the first computers to be sold commercially.

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