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hahn

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hahn.

Editorial note

The rise of electronic payment could also raise privacy concerns, but Hahn said these pale in comparison to what it would mean for state revenues.

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Quick take

A surname from German.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hahn gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A surname from Korean.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hahn.

noun

A surname from German.

noun

A surname from Korean.

Example sentences

1

The rise of electronic payment could also raise privacy concerns, but Hahn said these pale in comparison to what it would mean for state revenues.

2

A relatively general proof can be obtained from measure theory and, there, the Hahn decomposition from the Radon-Nikodym theorem.

3

Adam Hahn (my co-founder and CTO) is nearing the end of his first year and should.

4

And David Hahn began construction of a breeder reactor in his own backyard.

5

Also with the Radon-Nikodym theorem, can quickly do the Hahn decomposition and, then, knock off a very general proof of the Neyman-Pearson result in statistics.

6

David Hahn used knowledge and materials which were the product of the nuclear age (many of the materials he used were created with industrial nuclear reactions).

7

Per Rhodes in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Hahn was manipulating just a few thousand atoms at a time in his work (!!!), and was of course willing to believe his data, no matter how far out from what everyone believe about the nucleus.

8

And the author will sometimes go on excessively long digressions, like all about Swedish village where Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Hahn did their Christmas vacation when she was the first to get the news from her colleague back in (Nazi) Germany that uranium fissioned.

9

The case of Lise Meitner is particularly silly, because she would get at best equal billing with her nephew Otto Frisch; they were together in Sweden on Christmas vacation when Meitner's radiochemistry colleague Otto Hahn sent the startling data to her first, even before any of the physicists in his (Nazi) German chemistry institute (a truly prejudicial action indeed!).

Quote examples

1

"If the Americans have a uranium bomb then you are all second-raters.", says Otto Hahn.

Proper noun examples

1

Some of my servers are doing, say, an exploitation of the Hahn-Banach theorem in a Hilbert space.

2

Then, yes, can get the Hahn-Banach theorem, but the same thing in Hilbert space is easier.

3

According to David Hahn's Wikipedia page[1], his reactor used thorium, purified from thorium ash used in lantern mantles, and not americium.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hahn in a sentence?

The rise of electronic payment could also raise privacy concerns, but Hahn said these pale in comparison to what it would mean for state revenues.

What does hahn mean?

A surname from German.

What part of speech is hahn?

hahn is commonly used as noun.