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NIKOLA TESLA
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• NIKOLA TESLA (noun)
The noun NIKOLA TESLA has 1 sense:
1. United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
Familiarity information: NIKOLA TESLA used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Nikola Tesla; Tesla
Instance hypernyms:
electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
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