henry

[hen·ry]

A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736 1799)

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The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp'8are a second.

Noun
United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)

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a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

Noun
English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)

Noun
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second


n.
The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.


Henry

Hen"ry , n.; pl. Henrys. [From Joseph Henry, an American physicist.] The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp'8are a second.

The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp'8are a second.

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Usage Examples

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

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