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  • proper noun A surname.

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Examples

  • When, next morning, C Section, under Major Snell from the Red Château, joined it, the complete establishment of all three sections was under one roof.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • I have nothing against the name "Snell" - I just wouldn't name a city after it.

    ajc.com - News 2010

  • One of the accomplishments of these years includes his discovery of the law of refraction, often called Snell's law: when light passes from one medium into another, the sine of the angle of incidence maintains a constant ratio to the sine of the angle of refraction.

    Descartes' Physics Slowik, Edward 2009

  • Light waves in passing through the surface of a transparent material obey a rule called Snell's Law, which requires that the index of refraction * n* times the sine of the angle the light makes with the direction perpendicular to the surface must be the same on both sides of the surface.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Martin, alias Snell, immediately complied with the request, and as soon as he found himself closeted with Mr. Travilla, proceeded to give a full account of his last night's adventure.

    Elsie's Motherhood Martha Finley 1868

  • Zdurienick called Snell "a talented pitcher with major league experience who now has an opportunity restart his career after a very successful reassignment in Indianapolis."

    unknown title 2009

  • His first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, is not designed to please, beginning perhaps with the choice of the peculiar name "Snell" for the central character.

    Funny as a Crutch Hardwick, Elizabeth 2003

  • In the Optics, for example, Descartes works out his laws of refraction, and within this context, what would later be called Snell's Law (which Descartes seems to have worked out as early as

    Descartes' Life and Works Smith, Kurt 2007

  • "Snell," he said, "you have a head on your shoulders!

    Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Smith and Snell find that 26 percent of their sample of young adults aged eighteen to twenty-three in 2008 can be classified as “Disengaged” from religion as they attend religious services less than a few times a year and identify themselves as not religious.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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