English Explanatory Dictionary

Wigner

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Anglo-Saxon or other Germanic
  2. Hungarian-born American physicist Eugene Wigner.

Word forms

Wigner

Etymology

Attestation is claimed of the surname in 14th-century England (Yorkshire) (i.e., in the Middle English period); apparently from Anglo-Saxon (Old English). Compare Wagner, Wagoner.

Related words

Wagner Waggoner Wagoner Wiggoner Wigoner

Derived words

Wigner crystal Wigner-Eckart theorem Wigner effect Wigner energy Wigner rotation Wigner-Seitz cell Wigner's friend
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