English Explanatory Dictionary

Dirac

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from French.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈræk/

Word forms

Dirac

Etymology

From the French surname Dirac, probably from the French town by that name in Charente, from Medieval Latin Adiraco, Dyracum, from a Gallo-Roman name, Latin Atirius (a derivative of Atilius), or alternatively a Frankish/Germanic name *Adarus, in either case with the common Gallo-Roman nominal suffix -acum.

Related words

Paul Dirac British physicist

Derived words

Dirac comb Dirac delta function Dirac equation Dirac fermion Dirac field Dirac Hamiltonian Dirac monopole Dirac notation Dirac particle Dirac point Dirac wave function Fermi-Dirac distribution Fermi-Dirac statistics Kapitza-Dirac effect
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