Associations to the word «Heaviside»

HEAVISIDE UNIT FUNCTION, noun. (mathematics) The function whose value is zero if its independent variable is negative, and one otherwise.

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).