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

1 sense of oliver heaviside

Sense 1
Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside -- (English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)