Associations to the word «Thomson»

Wiktionary

THOMSON, proper noun. A British surname​.
THOMSON PROCESS, proper noun. A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.

Dictionary definition

THOMSON, noun. United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989).
THOMSON, noun. United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937).
THOMSON, noun. English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975).
THOMSON, noun. English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats