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foucault

/ˌfuˈkoʊ/

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What does foucault mean?

proper noun

  1. Michel Foucault
  2. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist (1819–1868)

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Wheatstone's device of the revolving mirror was afterwards employed by Foucault and Fizeau to measure the velocity of light.
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979
He split up the iron core of the armature into thin laminations, separated by paper, thus practically suppressing Foucault currents therein and resulting heating effect.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
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From the 4th to the 6th of December inclusive, the weather remaining much the same in America, the great European instruments of Herschel, Rosse, and Foucault, were constantly directed toward the moon, for the weather was then magnificent; but the comparative weakness of their glasses prevented any trustworthy observations being made.
Jules VerneFrom the Earth to the moon; and, round the moonProject Gutenberg ebook #83