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ROENTGEN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923)

Synonyms:

Roentgen; Rontgen; Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen; Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

Synonyms:

R; roentgen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("roentgen" is a kind of...):

radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)

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