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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hertzian \Hertz"i*an\, a. Of or pert. to the German physicist Heinrich Hertz. {Hertzian telegraphy}, telegraphy by means of the Hertzian waves; wireless telegraphy. {H. waves}, electric waves; -- so called because Hertz was the first to investigate them systematically. His apparatus consisted essentially in an oscillator for producing the waves, and a resonator for detecting them The waves were found to have the same velocity as light, and to undergo reflection, refraction, and polarization. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Hertzian adj : of or relating to the physicist Heinrich Hertz or his work "Hertzian discoveries" [syn: {Hertzian}]
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