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Noun michelson has 1 sense
  1. Michelson, A. A. Michelson, Albert Michelson, Albert Abraham Michelson - United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931)
    --1 is a kind of physicist

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Michelson

Noun

1. A surname of German origin.

Example sentence: The renowned physicist Albert Abraham Michelson was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Noun

2. A measurement unit used in telecommunication networks to represent the wavelength of optical signals.

Example sentence: The signal was transmitted over a distance of 80 Michelsons.

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