Associations to the word «Hammett»

Wiktionary

HAMMETT, proper noun. A surname​.
HAMMETT ACIDITY FUNCTION, noun. A measure of acidity used for very concentrated solutions of strong acids, including superacids.

Dictionary definition

HAMMETT, noun. United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne