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Roentgen Roent·gen

Spelling: [rent-guh n, -juh n, ruhnt-; Roentgen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in Roentgen (eegnnort).

Definitions for Roentgen

noun

1. Wilhelm Konrad [wil-helm kon-rad;; German vil-helm kawn-raht] /ˈwɪl hɛlm ˈkɒn ræd;; German ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈkɔn rɑt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1923, German physicist: discoverer of x-rays 1895; Nobel prize 1901.
2. (lowercase) Physics. a unit of exposure dose that measures x-rays or gamma rays in terms of the ions or electrons produced in dry air at 0° C and one atmosphere, equal to the amount of radiation producing one electrostatic unit of positive or negative charge per cubic centimeter of air. Abbreviation: r, R.

adjective

1. (sometimes lowercase) of or relating to Wilhelm Roentgen, the Roentgen unit, or especially to x-rays.

Examples for Roentgen

The morphine injection and the Roentgen rays are by far more dangerous.

We have seen the discovery of the Roentgen Rays born of observation.

Call it the X-poison, if you will, as Roentgen did with his unknown ray.

But the women who can see clear through a man, like a Roentgen ray, do not invite soft demonstration.

Luckily, not even Roentgen rays could discover what a store of drawings, charts, and fortress plans I keep in my memory.

Modern surgical apparatus had not been invented and electric lights and the Roentgen Rays were unknown.

"That light wasn't exactly the Roentgen variety," Drake interrupted my absorption in our surroundings.

What miracles are wireless telegraphy, flying-machines, the Roentgen ray!

Is there no Roentgen ray that will pierce the horizon of the future and disclose to us what lies beyond?

Is it credible that old Melchizedek knew nothing about the telephone, or the Roentgen ray, or the cholera bacillus?