Definitions for Fresnel

Fresnel fres·nel

Spelling: [fruh-nel, French frey-nel<
IPA: /frəˈnɛl, French freɪˈnɛl/

Fresnel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in Fresnel (eeflnrs).

Definitions for Fresnel

noun

  1. a unit of frequency, equal to 10 12 cycles per second.
  2. Augustin Jean, 1788–1827, French physicist.

Origin of Fresnel

First recorded in 1935-40; named after Augustin Jean Fresnel

Examples for Fresnel

The light-house has since been rebuilt, and shows a fresnel light.

fresnel therefore adopted the ingenious device proposed by Condorcet, that of constructing a lens of a number of distinct pieces.

As to double refraction, fresnel made it depend on the unequal elasticity of the aether in different directions.

fresnel dipped a hand into his pocket, and fetched thence a key.

But for lenses the burner has seventeen films of flame, and is said to possess six times the power of the fresnel lamp.

From that time the undulatory theory lost ground, until it was revived by Young and fresnel.

fresnel, Oppert, and Thomas, were included in the same disaster.

fresnel devised many improvements in which he used refracting and reflecting prisms for the outer elements.

Rumford and also fresnel devised multiple-wick burners, thus increasing the luminous intensity.

fresnel and Ampre for true ones, and then imagines my true results are like those erroneous ones.

Word Value for Fresnel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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