TYNDALL

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

1. British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893)

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

• TYNDALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Tyndall; Tyndall

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

There were scientific works, too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)