Associations to the word «Heaviside»
Noun
- Oliver
- Calculus
- Maxwell
- Gibbs
- Josiah
- Willard
- Integral
- Emu
- Equation
- Layer
- Physicist
- Faraday
- Vector
- Notation
- Impedance
- Mathematician
- Coil
- Distortion
- Appleton
- Curvature
- Dolphin
- Fourier
- Transform
- Fitzgerald
- Function
- Derivation
- Telegraph
- Thomson
- Step
- Derivative
- Edwin
- Propagation
- Transmission
- Operator
- Crater
- Algebra
- Cable
- Atmosphere
- Sage
- Delta
- Wave
- Physic
- Mathematic
- Heinrich
- Constant
- Si
- Ieee
- Electricity
- Durham
- Unit
- Signal
- Clerk
- Current
- Theory
- Frequency
- Integration
- Engineer
- Existence
- Arthur
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Analysis
- Condition
- Solution
- Circuit
- Radiation
- Method
- Input
- Quantity
- Engineering
- Cat
- Discovery
- Concept
- Hamilton
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
HEAVISIDE UNIT FUNCTION, noun. (mathematics) The function whose value is zero if its independent variable is negative, and one otherwise.
Dictionary definition
HEAVISIDE, noun. English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925).
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.