Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name.

Etymologies

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From a Polish royal name, and saint's name, of Slavic origin, meaning "proclamation of peace".

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Examples

  • I don’t like getting bogged down in Casimir effects and cloning and whatever techno-crap they like to wrap their science in.

    The Tail Section » Your Voice: Comprehensive Theory for the End of ‘Lost’ - Part 1 2008

  • I don’t like getting bogged down in Casimir effects and cloning and whatever techno-crap they like to wrap their science in.

    The Tail Section » 2008 » March 2008

  • Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • At such short distances, a quantum-mechanical effect known as the Casimir force – which is too weak to be seen at distances greater than a micrometer – becomes significant.

    Levitating Nanomachines | Impact Lab 2007

  • Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

    Scientists Reveal The Secret Of Levitation | Impact Lab 2007

  • Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

    Links: Levitation, Dinosaurs, and wasting $ 2007

  • Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.

    Links: Levitation, Dinosaurs, and wasting $ 2007

  • The closest scientists have come is a phenomenon called the Casimir effect, wherein empty space between two conducting plates behaves as if it contains negative energy.

    The Speculist: Zefram Cochran's To-Do List 2006

  • Having gathered her data, Sula called Casimir and told him she needed him to set up a meeting with Sergius.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • A new fort called Casimir was erected, on the west side of the river near the present site of New Castle, four miles below the

    Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam 1841

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