English Explanatory Dictionary

Hookean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to Robert Hooke, 17th-century British physicist.
  2. For which Hooke's law is a useful approximation; linear-elastic.

Word forms

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Etymology

From Hooke + -an.

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