Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hertzian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hertzian \Hertz"i*an\, a.
Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
{Hertzian telegraphy}, telegraphy by means of the Hertzian
waves; wireless telegraphy.
{H. waves}, electric waves; -- so called because Hertz was
the first to investigate them systematically. His
apparatus consisted essentially in an oscillator for
producing the waves, and a resonator for detecting them.
The waves were found to have the same velocity as light,
and to undergo reflection, refraction, and polarization.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hertzian
adj : of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work;
"Hertzian discoveries" [syn: {Hertzian}]
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