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geiger

Gei·ger
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [gahy-ger]
    • /ˈgaɪ gər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [gahy-ger]
    • /ˈgaɪ gər/

Definitions of geiger word

  • noun geiger Hans [hahns] /hɑns/ (Show IPA), 1882–1947, German physicist. 1
  • noun geiger Hans (hans). 1882–1945, German physicist: developed the Geiger counter 0
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geiger popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • geiger-müller threshold

    the minimum voltage applied to an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter, at which the charge collected per count is independent of the nature of the ionizing event producing the count.

  • geiger counter

    an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.

  • geiger-müller tube

    a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.

  • accelerator mass spectrometry

    a type of mass spectrometry used in radiocarbon dating in which the proportion of carbon isotopes is counted directly, as contrasted with the indirect Geiger counter method, using an accelerator that drastically reduces the quantity of datable material required.

  • geiger tree

    a small, shapely evergreen, Cordia sebestena, native to the Florida Keys, South America, Yucatan, and the West Indies, having orange and red flowers and small pear-shaped fruit.
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