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roentgen

roentgen

2 definitions found for roentgen

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rontgen \R["o]nt"gen\, Roentgen \Roent"gen\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad
     R["o]ntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, R["o]ntgen
     apparatus.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

  roentgen
      n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing
           radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of
           electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R]
      2: German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed
         roentgenography (1845-1923) [syn: Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad
         Roentgen, Rontgen, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen]