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A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose.
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Any of various widely known persons so named, such as James Clerk Maxwell.
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Colusa County, California.
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A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sangamon County, Illinois.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Story County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.
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A number of places in the United States:
A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
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A number of places in the United States:
A village in Colfax County, New Mexico.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
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A hamlet in Grey Highlands municipality, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
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A locality in the Wagga Wagga council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
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noun
A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.
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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
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Synonyms: J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell
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Broader terms: physicist
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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
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Synonyms: Mx
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Broader terms: flux unit, magnetic flux unit
History
From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).
From James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
Across languages
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