Definitions for fresnels

fresnels fres·nel

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

Fresnels is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in fresnels (eeflnrss).

Definitions for fresnels

noun

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

Origin of fresnels

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

Examples for fresnels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for fresnels
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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