Associations to the word «Hammett»

Wiktionary

HAMMETT, proper noun. A surname​.
HAMMETT ACIDITY FUNCTION, noun. A measure of acidity used for very concentrated solutions of strong acids, including superacids.

Dictionary definition

HAMMETT, noun. United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope