maxwell

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noun 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
noun Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)

From James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician.

But lady Maxwell had come. — Ulysses, James Joyce
#Burt, Maxwell Struthers.# (1882- .) — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
"At least I've found Maxwell. — From Place to Place, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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