(n) United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975), Syn.Jimmy Hoffa, James Riddle Hoffa
(n) German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887), Syn.G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
(n) (physics) two laws governing electric networks in which steady currents flow: the sum of all the currents at a point is zero and the sum of the voltage gains and drops around any closed circuit is zero
(n) autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood
[ After J. H. van't Hoff, Dutch physical chemist. ] (Phys. Chem.) The generalization that: when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature, the exothermic by lowering it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
[Huò fū màn, ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄈㄨ ㄇㄢˋ, 霍夫曼] Hofmann or Hoffman (name); August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist; Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor #48,369[Add to Longdo]
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