SHANNON

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• SHANNON (noun)
  The noun SHANNON has 1 sense:

1. United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)

  Familiarity information: SHANNON used as a noun is very rare.

• SHANNON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Claude E. Shannon; Claude Elwood Shannon; Claude Shannon; Shannon

Instance hypernyms:

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

 Context examples 

No matter what planet you're on, lightning bolts act like radio transmitters — sending out radio waves when they flash across a sky, said Shannon Brown of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a scientist from NASA's Juno mission.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)