Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Dewar, Sir James 1842-1923. Scottish-born chemist and physicist who studied the liquefaction of gases and the properties of matter at very low temperatures and invented cordite (1889) with Sir Frederick Abel.
Wiktionary
- n. A glass or metal double-walled flask for holding a liquid without much loss or gain of heat; a vacuum bottle or thermos. Generally used for scientific purposes and in particular for cryogenic work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, liquid nitrogen, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
- n. vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments
Etymologies
- Named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention. (Wiktionary)
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“He held out his glass with about half the lemonade in it, and H.O. generously filled up the tumbler out of the bottle, labelled Dewar's whisky.”
“He pointed to a bottle labelled Dewar's whisky, which stood on the table near the spirit-kettle.”
“The steins are made from a piece of lab equipment known as a Dewar flask.”
“James A Dewar was the manager of a baking plant in Chicago during the Great Depression.”
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