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de⋅bye

[di-bahy]
–noun Electricity.
a unit of measure for electric dipole moments, equal to 10–18 statcoulomb-centimeters. Abbreviation: D

Origin:
1930–35; named after P. J. W. Debye

De⋅bye

[de-bahy]
–noun
Pe⋅ter Jo⋅seph Wil⋅helm [pey-tuhr yoh-sef vil-helm] , 1884–1966, Dutch physicist, in the U.S. after 1940: Nobel prize for chemistry 1936.
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De·bye   (də-bī')   
Dutch-born American physicist. He won a 1936 Nobel Prize for his investigations on dipole movements and on diffraction of x-rays and electrons in gases.
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