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debye
1[ dih-bahy ]
noun
, Electricity.
- a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10 –18 statcoulomb-centimeters. : D
Debye
2[ de-bahy ]
noun
- Pe·ter Jo·seph Wil·helm [pey, -t, uh, r, , yoh, -sef , vil, -helm], 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936.
Debye
/ deˈbɛiə /
noun
- DebyePeter Joseph Wilhelm18841966MDutchSCIENCE: chemistSCIENCE: physicist Peter Joseph Wilhelm. 1884–1966, Dutch chemist and physicist, working in the US: Nobel prize for chemistry (1936) for his work on dipole moments
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