Heaviside layer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Heaviside layer
First recorded in 1910–15; named after O. Heaviside
Example Sentences
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There is a real Heaviside layer in Earth’s ionsphere, which technically fits the musical’s description of being located “up, up, up, up past the Russell Hotel,” the tallest building in London in Eliot’s day.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2019
Macavity eventually kidnaps Old Deuteronomy, the O.G. cat, but he gets caught and Old Deuteronomy returns in time to decide who gets to go to the Heaviside layer.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2019
We don’t really know what happens to the cats once they reach the Heaviside layer, whether their new life is on another plane or they return to the world we’re familiar with.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2019
They suspect that the theoretical Heaviside layer comes close to the earth's surface at the Poles.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are already in operation, sending their defensive waves against the Heaviside layer.
From Invaders from the Infinite by John Wood Campbell
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