A surname.
stoney
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stoney.
Editorial note
The 'stoney' rough asphalts can be extremely slippery when wet, and even dry they then to extend breaking distance.
Quick take
A surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of stoney gathered in one view.
The Siouan language spoken by these people.
(Canada) A member of the Nakoda, a First Nation related to the Sioux living in western Canada, especially in southern Alberta.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for stoney.
noun
A surname.
noun
The Siouan language spoken by these people.
noun
(Canada) A member of the Nakoda, a First Nation related to the Sioux living in western Canada, especially in southern Alberta.
adjective
Obsolete form of stony. [As hard as stone.]
Example sentences
The 'stoney' rough asphalts can be extremely slippery when wet, and even dry they then to extend breaking distance.
In the 19th century, both George Johnstone Stoney and Max Planck have made the same mistake.
The consequence is that if using the systems of fundamental units of George Johnstone Stoney or of Max Planck, almost no absolute value of any quantity can be known accurately.
George Johnstone Stoney has computed in 1874 the value of the elementary electric charge, based on the results of Loschmidt.
Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards, viersefied and piersified may the treeth we tale of live in stoney.
Both Stoney and Planck have chosen to base their proposals for systems of fundamental units on the second Maxwell variant, and this mistake made their systems completely impractical.
- Planck time, Stoney time, Second: Unambiguously valid for both chronological and calendrical usage.
The matter of the existence of the atoms has become pretty much settled in 1865, when Johann Josef Loschmidt was the first who determined the size and mass of the atoms, and then his results were well used by others, like Maxwell and Stoney (who determined the electric charge of the atoms).
Moreover, a few years later, in 1874, George Johnstone Stoney has used the results of Loschmidt together with the theory of the existence of an elementary electric charge published by Maxwell one year before, in 1873, to compute the value of the elementary electric charge.
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Unfortunately, probably because most textbooks of physics do an extremely poor job in explaining the foundation of physics, which is the theory of the measurement of the physical quantities, most people are not aware that the Planck system of units is completely bogus, like also a few other similar attempts, like the Stoney system of units.
Quote examples
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Some years later, Stoney has given the name "electron" to the elementary electric charge, which has been the source of a very large number of words in modern science and technology, from electronics to hadrons.
Each of them has computed for the first time some universal constants, Stoney has computed the elementary electric charge in 1874 and Planck has computed the 2 constants that are now named "Boltzmann's constant" and "Planck's constant", in several variants, in 1899, 1900 and 1901.
The "Planck units" are not unique, there also exists a very similar system of "Stoney units", proposed a quarter of century before the "Planck units", where the values of the units are different, and there are also other variants of dimensionless systems of units proposed later.
Proper noun examples
After Stoney, other experiments had reduced the uncertainty with which the value was known, but it remained relatively high.
The approximate value of the elementary electric charge had been known since 1874, when it was first computed by George Johnstone Stoney.
Stoney silence in pricing discussions my side is the way to get to a price that's worth talking about, months can elapse though, it's tiresome.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use stoney in a sentence?
The 'stoney' rough asphalts can be extremely slippery when wet, and even dry they then to extend breaking distance.
What does stoney mean?
A surname.
What part of speech is stoney?
stoney is commonly used as noun, adjective.