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Heav⋅i⋅side

[hev-ee-sahyd]
–noun
Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
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heaviside

noun
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925) 
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