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- proper noun A
surname .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
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Examples
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And sure, the Hays Office made it necessary to muck about with Chalder's story, so we don't know the nature of "the racket" Geiger is running, that he's using the antique bookshop as a front for a shop that sells pornography, or that Lundgren and Geiger are lovers (the Hays Office wouldn't go for homosexuality), or that those photos of Carmen are pornographic.
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And sure, the Hays Office made it necessary to muck about with Chalder's story, so we don't know the nature of "the racket" Geiger is running, that he's using the antique bookshop as a front for a shop that sells pornography, or that Lundgren and Geiger are lovers (the Hays Office wouldn't go for homosexuality), or that those photos of Carmen are pornographic.
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Iran is investing in Geiger counters, and Osama bin Laden is sitting in his cave making tapes that basically say, "Neener, neener."
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If oft-injured Matt Geiger is healthy, his outside shot could cause problems for the Lakers.
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Geiger is to select from a large number of possible and perhaps useful experiments that which appears the most urgent at the moment, and to do this experiment with the simplest possible apparatus, i.e. clearly arranged and variable apparatus.
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This modesty of his room requirements - Geiger repeatedly stated that he had no desire for a giant institute - is characteristic of the principal trait in Geiger's personality as a scientist: the desire to keep scientific work within economic bounds.
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Geiger derives both the Arabic words from Syriac terms, and renders elders and clerics, p. 51.
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"If the gates break there, much of Hungary's drinking water would be endangered," says WWF official Martin Geiger.
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"If the gates break there, much of Hungary's drinking water would be endangered," says WWF official Martin Geiger.
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Turbo was traveling at an "extremely high rate of speed" before it rolled down the embankment off state Highway 341, known as Geiger Grade, which connects Reno to Virginia City, around
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