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

1 sense of nikola tesla

Sense 1
Tesla, Nikola Tesla -- (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943))
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)