maxwell

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Definition of maxwell in English Turkish dictionary: mıknatıssal akı birimi; manyetik akı birimi; maksvel; miknatissal akı birimi; {i} mıknatıs akımı birimi
maxwell's bridge: maxwell köprüsü
maxwell's law: maxwell yasası
maxwell's rule: maxwell kuralı

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Definition of maxwell in English English dictionary: A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose; A male given name, transferred from the surname; A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second; derived from the surname; Anderson James Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Evarts William Maxwell Maxwell's equations Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell William Perkins Maxwell Evarts Roach Maxwell Taylor Maxwell Davenport Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley Maxwell Aitken lst Baron William Maxwell Aitken; {i} James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), Scottish physicist, originator of Maxwell's equations for light magnetism and electricity; family name; Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss
Maxwell's demon: A hypothetical creature created for a thought experiment. Maxwell’s demon, if it existed, would act as a sort of gate guard by sorting between higher-energy molecules and lower-energy molecules within an enclosed space. Because such a sorting process would tend to decrease entropy, it would violate the second law of thermodynamics
Maxwell Aitken lst Baron Beaverbrook: orig. William Maxwell Aitken known as Lord Beaverbrook born May 25, 1879, Maple, Ont., Can. died June 9, 1964, near Leatherhead, Surrey, Eng. Canadian-British politician and newspaper proprietor. After making a fortune in Montreal as a financier, he moved to England and became active in politics as a Conservative. Beginning in 1916, he took over or founded newspapers, including the London Daily Express, Sunday Express, and Evening Standard. Idiosyncratic and very successful, he became a "press lord" and a champion of individual enterprise and British imperial interests. He held various high government appointments, including positions in the British Cabinet during both World Wars, but he never fully achieved the political power he sought
Maxwell Aitken lst Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley: orig. William Maxwell Aitken known as Lord Beaverbrook born May 25, 1879, Maple, Ont., Can. died June 9, 1964, near Leatherhead, Surrey, Eng. Canadian-British politician and newspaper proprietor. After making a fortune in Montreal as a financier, he moved to England and became active in politics as a Conservative. Beginning in 1916, he took over or founded newspapers, including the London Daily Express, Sunday Express, and Evening Standard. Idiosyncratic and very successful, he became a "press lord" and a champion of individual enterprise and British imperial interests. He held various high government appointments, including positions in the British Cabinet during both World Wars, but he never fully achieved the political power he sought
Maxwell Anderson: born Dec. 15, 1888, Atlantic, Pa., U.S. died Feb. 28, 1959, Stamford, Conn. U.S. playwright. He worked as a journalist before cowriting his first successful play, What Price Glory? (1924), which was followed by Saturday's Children (1927). His verse dramas Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933) were later adapted for film. He returned to prose for the satire Both Your Houses (1933, Pulitzer Prize) and the tragedy Winterset (1935), then turned to verse again for High Tor (1936), a romantic comedy. He collaborated with Kurt Weill on the musicals Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Lost in the Stars (1949). His last play, The Bad Seed (1954), became a successful film
Maxwell Davenport Taylor: born Aug. 26, 1901, Keytesville, Mo., U.S. died April 19, 1987, Washington, D.C. U.S. army officer. He graduated from West Point and helped organize the army's first airborne division early in World War II. He commanded a parachute assault in the Normandy Campaign and in the Battle of the Bulge (1944). He served as commanding general of UN forces in Korea (1953), as U.S. Army chief of staff (1955-59), and as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962-64). He was appointed ambassador to South Vietnam (1964-65) and was a special consultant to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69). He advocated the maintenance of conventional infantry as a prudent alternative to the use of nuclear weapons in war
Maxwell Evarts Perkins: born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S. died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn. U.S. editor. He worked as a reporter for The New York Times before joining the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, of which he later became editorial director and vice president. He is best known for the intensive editorial work that shaped Thomas Wolfe's sprawling manuscripts into publishable form, but he also assisted the early careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Erskine Caldwell, Edmund Wilson, and Alan Paton
Maxwell Perkins: born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S. died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn. U.S. editor. He worked as a reporter for The New York Times before joining the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, of which he later became editorial director and vice president. He is best known for the intensive editorial work that shaped Thomas Wolfe's sprawling manuscripts into publishable form, but he also assisted the early careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Erskine Caldwell, Edmund Wilson, and Alan Paton
Maxwell Roach: born Jan. 10, 1924, New Land, N.C., U.S. U.S. jazz bandleader, composer, and drummer. Roach performed with many of the key bebop players of the mid-1940s, including Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. He developed a light, flexible manner of keeping time with the ride cymbal rather than the bass drum, updating the role of the drum set for the new music and exploring the melodic possibilities of the drums in his solos. He formed a quintet with trumpeter Clifford Brown in 1954 and continued as leader of his own group following Brown's death in 1956
Maxwell Taylor: born Aug. 26, 1901, Keytesville, Mo., U.S. died April 19, 1987, Washington, D.C. U.S. army officer. He graduated from West Point and helped organize the army's first airborne division early in World War II. He commanded a parachute assault in the Normandy Campaign and in the Battle of the Bulge (1944). He served as commanding general of UN forces in Korea (1953), as U.S. Army chief of staff (1955-59), and as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962-64). He was appointed ambassador to South Vietnam (1964-65) and was a special consultant to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69). He advocated the maintenance of conventional infantry as a prudent alternative to the use of nuclear weapons in war
Maxwell's equations: Four equations, formulated by James Clerk Maxwell, that together form a complete description of the production and interrelation of electric and magnetic fields. The statements of these four equations are (1) electric field diverges from electric charge, (2) there are no isolated magnetic poles, (3) electric fields are produced by changing magnetic fields, and (4) circulating magnetic fields are produced by changing electric fields and by electric currents. Maxwell based his description of electromagnetic fields on these four statements
maxwell's demon: an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would resultin one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
maxwell's equations: four differential equations that summarize classical properties of electromagnetic fields
maxwell-boltzmann distribution law: (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium
Ian Robert Maxwell: orig. Jan Ludvik Hoch born June 10, 1923, Slatina-Selo, Czech. died Nov. 5, 1991, at sea off the Canary Islands Czech-British publisher. Of Jewish origin, he lost many family members in the Holocaust but managed to reach Britain and become an army officer. After the war he founded Pergamon Press, which became a major publisher of trade journals and scientific books. In the 1980s he revived the British Printing Corp. and purchased the Mirror Group Newspapers, though his financial practices were officially questioned. Among the U.S. acquisitions of Maxwell Communications were the New York Daily News (1991) and the publishing house Macmillan. The revelation of fraudulent financial dealings aimed at bolstering his collapsing empire was followed by his death by drowning from his yacht in the Atlantic. It was assumed to have been a suicide
James Clerk Maxwell: a British scientist who made important discoveries in electromagnetism, which made possible the development of radio and telephones (1831-79). born June 13, 1831, Edinburgh, Scot. died Nov. 5, 1879, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. Scottish physicist. He published his first scientific paper at age 14, entered the University of Edinburgh at 16, and graduated from Cambridge University. He taught at Aberdeen University, King's College London, and Cambridge (from 1871), where he supervised the building of Cavendish Laboratory. His most revolutionary achievement was his demonstration that light is an electromagnetic wave, and he originated the concept of electromagnetic radiation. His field equations (see Maxwell's equations) paved the way for Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. He established the nature of Saturn's rings, did important work on colour perception, and produced the kinetic theory of gases. His ideas formed the basis for quantum mechanics and ultimately for the modern theory of the structure of atoms and molecules
James Maxwell Anderson: born Dec. 15, 1888, Atlantic, Pa., U.S. died Feb. 28, 1959, Stamford, Conn. U.S. playwright. He worked as a journalist before cowriting his first successful play, What Price Glory? (1924), which was followed by Saturday's Children (1927). His verse dramas Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933) were later adapted for film. He returned to prose for the satire Both Your Houses (1933, Pulitzer Prize) and the tragedy Winterset (1935), then turned to verse again for High Tor (1936), a romantic comedy. He collaborated with Kurt Weill on the musicals Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Lost in the Stars (1949). His last play, The Bad Seed (1954), became a successful film
Robert Maxwell: orig. Jan Ludvik Hoch born June 10, 1923, Slatina-Selo, Czech. died Nov. 5, 1991, at sea off the Canary Islands Czech-British publisher. Of Jewish origin, he lost many family members in the Holocaust but managed to reach Britain and become an army officer. After the war he founded Pergamon Press, which became a major publisher of trade journals and scientific books. In the 1980s he revived the British Printing Corp. and purchased the Mirror Group Newspapers, though his financial practices were officially questioned. Among the U.S. acquisitions of Maxwell Communications were the New York Daily News (1991) and the publishing house Macmillan. The revelation of fraudulent financial dealings aimed at bolstering his collapsing empire was followed by his death by drowning from his yacht in the Atlantic. It was assumed to have been a suicide
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: a British composer of modern classical music. His works include the operas Taverner (1972), The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977), The Lighthouse (1980), and Resurrection (1987) (1934-). born Sept. 8, 1934, Manchester, Eng. British composer. He studied in England, Italy, and the U.S. He cofounded the contemporary ensemble The Fires of London and was its musical director (1970-87); he wrote many of his works for the group. Since 1970 he has lived and composed primarily in the remote Orkney Islands. He has written many musical theatre works and has conducted orchestras worldwide. His most famous compositions are Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) and An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise; his other works include Vesalii Icones (1969), Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (1974), and Ave maris stella (1975); the operas Taverner (1968), The Martyrdom of St. Magnus (1976), and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (1978); and seven symphonies
William Maxwell: born Aug. 16, 1908, Lincoln, Ill., U.S. died July 31, 2000, New York, N.Y. American editor and author. Maxwell taught English at the University of Illinois before joining the staff of The New Yorker magazine. In his 40 years there, he edited writers such as John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, Eudora Welty, and Mavis Gallant. He himself was the author of spare, evocative short stories and novels. Perhaps his best-known work is The Folded Leaf (1945), about the friendship of two small-town boys. Among his other works are the novels The Château (1961) and So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980) and the short-story collection All the Days and Nights (1995)
William Maxwell Evarts: born Feb. 6, 1818, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Feb. 28, 1901, New York, N.Y. U.S. lawyer. He served as counsel for Pres. Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial (1868). After Johnson's acquittal, he served as U.S. attorney general (1868-69), then represented the U.S. in the Alabama claims arbitration at Geneva (1872). He was Republican chief counsel in the election dispute between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden in 1876. As Hayes's secretary of state (1877-81), he asserted U.S. interests over a proposed canal in Panama. He later served in the U.S. Senate (1885-91)