Crossword clues for geiger
geiger
- Pioneer in radiation detection
- Physicist Hans who studied radiation
- Particle detector eponym
- Particle detector co-creator
- Introducer of a radioactivity counter
- Hans who developed a well-known counter
- Hans of counter fame
- Fellow with a counter offer?
- Counter inventor
- Counter coinventor
- A kind of counter
- ___ counter (radiation detector)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 70
Land area (2000): 0.989189 sq. miles (2.561988 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.989189 sq. miles (2.561988 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29392
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 32.868543 N, 88.306061 W
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Geiger
Wikipedia
Geiger may refer to:
Geiger is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the much larger walled plain Keeler, and slightly farther to the northeast of the huge walled plain Gagarin. To the south is the crater Cyrano.
This is a not-quite symmetrical crater formation with small outward bulges along the north and northeast. The rim to the southeast is less well-formed than elsewhere. The northern inner wall is more extensive than elsewhere, slumping across about one-third the inner floor. The interior is otherwise relatively level and is marked by a few tiny craterlets.
Geiger is an advertising specialties company with more than 500 employees and more than 550 sales representatives. It is the industry's largest family-owned and family-managed distributorship and is based in Lewiston, Maine.
Initially named Geiger Brothers, it was founded in Newark, New Jersey in 1878 spanning 5 generations.
Geiger (Delilah "Dee Dee" Dearborn) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Doc Samson #1 (Jan 1996), and was created by Dan Slott and Ken Lashley.
Geiger is a German or French surname. In the German language Geiger means "violin player."
Usage examples of "geiger".
Old Geiger lived above his jewelry store and the noise had been just enough to waken him, which was exactly what Monte wanted.
Stumbling through the dark, Geiger reached a hinged counter that connected two showcases.
Turning, Geiger was bringing his hands up by the time he saw an aimed revolver that had the face of Monte Randow behind it.
Like a person hypnotized, Geiger kept staring at the glitter of the gun, expecting its muzzle to burst into flame.
To offset that, Trebe had sent another Kauger message, ordering Monte to a final job, the murder of Geiger, the jeweler.
Cincinnati and dead grass in Pennsylvania and dead trout in Georgia and Geiger counters gone crazy in Washington.
But it was no more impossible than welding a water-pump shaft in its place or eliminating all friction from a frozen-tight motor so that it could be started again, or, say looking at a Geiger Counter and understanding how it worked without the least idea of what it could be used for.
Dragon on steel tables were a Geiger counter, a radiation graph that drew a red line on rolling paper, and a neutron sealer that measured radiation with a bank of six red lights.
The ticking of the Geiger counters rose like the pulse of excited hearts.
Connected to a Geiger counter, the wire detected a cascade of ions, a noise like a hive.
A new map, a cartology of Geiger counters, seismographs, radiosondes and gauges.
It seemed to me from much past acquaintance that the box was probably a Geiger counter, and when I lifted it out and pressed an on-off switch, it rewarded me with slow irregular unurgent clicks.
Technically, a Geiger counter counted high-speed particles emitted by the decay of radioactive material.
Michael Ford walking back from the second thick-walled hut carrying the Geiger counter in one hand and the folder in the other.
Equine Research Establishment by any chance have a Geiger counter among its equipment?