Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maxwell

2 senses of maxwell

Sense 1
maxwell, Mx -- (a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss)
       => flux unit, magnetic flux unit -- (a measure of the strength of a magnetic field per unit area)

Sense 2
Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell -- (Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)