Michelson

[ mahy-kuhl-suhn ]

noun

1. Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel Prize 1907.

Michelson

/ ˈmaɪkəlsən /

noun

1. MichelsonAlbert Abraham18521931MUSGermanSCIENCE: physicist Albert Abraham. 1852–1931, US physicist, born in Germany: noted for his part in the Michelson-Morley experiment: Nobel prize for physics 1907

Michelson

/ mī′kəl-sən /

1. German-born American physicist who (with Edward Morley) disproved the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves. Their work served as the starting point for Albert Einstein's development of the theory of relativity.

Example Sentences

Michelson says the least-risky choice is sending your kids to daycare but not introducing any weekend plans.

From Time

“It would be really sad,” Michelson says, “to have one of the people you love get sick knowing that if you had waited five or six months, things would be different.”

From Time

For whatever solace it’s worth, though, Michelson says she can imagine a possible return to group gatherings by next summer, with effective vaccines seemingly headed toward approval.

From Time

If your aunt and uncle do make the trip, they—just like any traveler—should try to quarantine for 10 to 14 days pre-flight, Michelson says.

From Time

If he then goes to see more relatives, he risks infecting even more people, Michelson says.

From Time

The first, by the choreographer Sarah Michelson, consisted of several dancers walking backward in circles for well over an hour.

From The Daily Beast

And it is not merely a principle which it is a question of saving, it is the indubitable results of the experiments of Michelson.

From Project Gutenberg

The means have been varied; finally Michelson pushed precision to its last limits; nothing came of it.

From Project Gutenberg

This time the compensation is rigorous, and this it is which explains Michelson's experiment.

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I went to Mrs. Michelson's room, and found Fanny in a corner, with her box by her side, crying bitterly.

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I don't send for you to make objections, Mrs. Michelson—I send for you to carry out my plans of economy.

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