Heaviside

[ hev-ee-sahyd ]

/ ˈhɛv iˌsaɪd /

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noun

Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.

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Words nearby Heaviside

heave-off hinge, heaves, heave to, heavier-than-air, heavily, Heaviside, Heaviside layer, Heaviside unit function, heavy, heavy artillery, heavy-bearded

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How to use Heaviside in a sentence

The Heaviside aircraft—it’s named for Oliver Heaviside, a deceased British mathematician—measures 23 by 18 feet and needs a 900-square-foot landing zone.
Kitty Hawk’s electric airplane will fly you around—with no pilot|Rob Verger|September 23, 2021|Popular-Science
That’s a typical model for how electric air taxis would work, but what’s interesting about Heaviside and Kitty Hawk is that it would be a flying Uber for just one person.
Kitty Hawk’s electric airplane will fly you around—with no pilot|Rob Verger|September 23, 2021|Popular-Science
Thanks to the fact that Heaviside has eight motors, “we can easily afford losing one,” Thrun says, “and then still continue our flight as if nothing happened.”
Kitty Hawk’s electric airplane will fly you around—with no pilot|Rob Verger|September 23, 2021|Popular-Science
A name like Heaviside evokes images of a very large, or heavy, aircraft, like a Boeing 747.
Kitty Hawk’s electric airplane will fly you around—with no pilot|Rob Verger|September 23, 2021|Popular-Science

Another is Kitty Hawk, which is flying a craft they’ve dubbed Heaviside.
Kitty Hawk’s electric airplane will fly you around—with no pilot|Rob Verger|September 23, 2021|Popular-Science
A funeral sermon was preached at the Cathedral by Canon Heaviside.
Norfolk Annals|Charles Mackie
So we resolved to stop where we were, upon receipt of rations; and Heaviside told us not to be uneasy about anything.
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Madame Heaviside (as she commanded all people to entitle her) was of the whole the very grandest as regards appearance.
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Heaviside was not there to talk, and make me hug my singleness; nor even Jerry Toms, nor the cook, who used to let me teach her.
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Heaviside had his fat legs foremost, and the royal shark stopped to look at them.
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for Heaviside

Heaviside

/ (ˈhɛvɪˌsaɪd) /

noun

Oliver. 1850–1925, English physicist. Independently of Kennelly, he predicted (1902) the existence of an ionized gaseous layer in the upper atmosphere (the Heaviside layer); he also contributed to telegraphy

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