familiarize
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fa·mil·iar·ize
/ fəˈmilyəˌrīz/
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v. [tr.]
give (someone) knowledge or understanding of something:
to familiarize students with the microscope and its uses.
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make (something) better known or more easily grasped:
exercises which will help to familiarize the terms used.
DERIVATIVES:
fa·mil·iar·i·za·tion
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Who Discovered Radio Waves?
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 4/22/2007; 238 words
; Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, Germany on February 22, 1857. Hertz was a bright young professor of physics...he discovered radio waves in 1887. Hertz detected these waves with a metal wire...
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Brushing up on ac circuit fundamentals.
Magazine article from: Plant Engineering; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...etc. The number of cycles in one second is the frequency, and is measured in Hz, named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (See "Brief history of Hertz"). Voltage considerations The voltage at any one particular point in time is the instantaneous...
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Haring, Kristen. Ham Radio's Technical Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...1867), James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) that unlocked the mystery of electromagnetic...frequency (a specific number of cycles per second, or Hertz) and transmitted across distances at the speed of light...
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Science vs. technology.(relationship between pure science and applications-oriented engineering)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Test & Measurement World; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...observations of others. Maxwell's equations, he said, predict a radiative form of electromagnetic energy, which Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was later able to generate and detect. It wasn't long, Taylor said, until practical radios came into use...
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Germany enlists Indiana U. to help reform education system
News Wire article from: University Wire; 8/3/2006; ; 686 words
; ...With names such as Albert Einstein, former NASA Director Wernher von Braun and radio technology pioneer Heinrich Rudolf Hertz all being trained in at German universities, the country solidified itself in the past as a world leader in the...
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'Slow' friction waves could presage earthquakes
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...hundreds of years by people as distinguished as Leonardo da Vinci and physicists Charles Augustin de Coulomb and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the study of friction remains as intriguingly current today as it was 500 years ago. Scientists have yet to...
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De la maquina electrica a la radiologia en Colombia.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: MedUNAB; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...para almacenar y trasmitir electricidad por parte de Heinrich Daniel Ruhnkorff. Los tubos al vaco tambin sufrieron...vidrio. Otro adelanto importante fue el realizado por Rudolf Hertz en 1888, al observar que los rayos catdicos podan atravesar...
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People of spectroscopy
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...deduce an explanation for Hertz's photoelectric effect...changes in spectroscopy. Hertz, Heinrich R. (1857-1894...The unit of frequency Hertz is named in his honor...luminiferous ether. Mossbauer, Rudolf L. (1929- ) - Discovered...
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz The German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) demonstrated experimentally the propagation of electrical oscillations in space. Born on Feb. 22, 1857, in Hamburg, Heinrich Hertz was the oldest of the five children...
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Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf ( b . Hamburg, Germany, 22 February...Germany, 1 January 1894) physics . Hertz was born into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father, Gustav F. Hertz, was a barrister and later a senator...
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Hertz, Gustav
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Union's early research into atomic energy. Hertz was born on July 27, 1887, in Hamburg, Germany to Auguste Arning and Gustav Hertz, an attorney. His uncle, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, had studied electromagnetic waves in the...
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hertz
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
hertz (symbol Hz) The unit of frequency. One hertz is the frequency of a cyclical event having a period of one second. It is named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–94).
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Doppler Effect
Book article from: Science of Everyday Things
...interval of one second. It is measured in Hertz (Hz), named after nineteenth-century German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894), and a Hertz is equal to one cycle of oscillation per second...
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