Definitions for Piccard
Piccard
Pic·card
Spelling: [French pee-kar]
IPA: /French piˈkar/
Piccard is a 7 letter English word.
You can make 144 anagrams from letters in Piccard (accdipr).
Definitions for Piccard
noun
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Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1884–1962, Swiss physicist, aeronaut, inventor, and deep-sea explorer: designer of bathyscaphes.
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his son, Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, Swiss oceanographer and bathyscaphe designer, born in Belgium.
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Jean Félix [zhahn fey-leeks] /ʒɑ̃ feɪˈliks/ (Show IPA), 1884–1963, U.S. chemist and aeronautical engineer, born in Switzerland (brother of Auguste).
Examples for Piccard
For the next 52 years, Walsh and Piccard were also the only explorers to reach the very bottom of the ocean.
In The Explorer Gene, science writer Tom Cheshire presents a fascinating cross-section of Piccard family history.
Piccard's results showed that both curvatures occurred and he concluded that the sensitive region is not confined to the tip.