Wilson definition

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A city of east-central North Carolina east of Raleigh. It has a large tobacco market.
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(person) 1766-1813; Am. ornithologist, born in Scotland.
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(person) 1913-91; Eng. novelist.
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(person) 1869-1959; Scot. physicist.
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(person) 1895-1972; U.S. writer & critic.
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(person) 1929- ; U.S. biologist & writer.
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(person) 1936- ; U.S. radio astronomer.
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(person) 1856-1924; 28th president of the U.S. (1913-21)
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(place) Mountain of the Coast Ranges, SW Calif., near Pasadena: site of an astronomical observatory: 5,710 ft (1,740 m)
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Wilson Sentence Examples

  • He paused and then added, "Oh, and my last name is Wilson."

  • Wilson considers that convection currents in the upper atmosphere would be quite inadequate, but conduction may, he thinks, be sufficient alone.

  • Wilson supposes that by the fall to the ground of a preponderance of negatively charged rain the air above the shower has a higher positive potential than elsewhere at the same level, thus leading to large conduction currents laterally in the highly conducting upper layers.

  • Then came the scandal of the decorations in which President Grevy's son-in-law Daniel Wilson figured, and the Rouvier cabinet fell in the attempt to screen the president.

  • Sir C. Wilson gave it as 50,000 (23,000 Christians).

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