debye

de·bye

[dih-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

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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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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Debye (Dutch deˈbɛiə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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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