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Wien

American  
[veen] / vin /

noun

  1. Wilhelm 1864–1928, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1911.

  2. German name of Vienna.


Wien 1 British  
/ viːn /

noun

  1. the German name for Vienna

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Wien 2 British  
/ viːn /

noun

  1. Wilhelm (ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1864–1928, German physicist, who studied black-body radiation: Nobel prize for physics 1911

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A new study from TU Wien may represent a step toward solving that problem.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Byron Wien, who passed away in 2023, was one of Wall Street’s preeminent strategists, in a career mostly at Morgan Stanley, known for his annual “10 surprises” report.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

The study also involved researchers from TU Wien and Trinity College Dublin.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

The music was played by 50 upright pianos, each of them with ever-so-slightly different tuning, amid a scattered chamber orchestra, the Klangforum Wien, of 25 other instruments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

It is situated upon an arm of the Danube where it is joined by the two small streams known as the Wien and the Alster, from the former of which the city takes its name.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

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