Look up airy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Airy may refer to: Sir George Biddell Airy (1801–1892), British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, for...
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Sir George Biddell Airy KCB FRS (/ˈɛəri/; 27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor...
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sciences, the Airy function (or Airy function of the first kind) Ai(x) is a special function named after the British astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801–1892)...
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In optics, the Airy disk (or Airy disc) and Airy pattern are descriptions of the best-focused spot of light that a perfect lens with a circular aperture...
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Mount Airy may refer to: Mount Airy, Georgia Mount Airy, Louisiana Mount Airy, Maryland Mount Airy (Davidsonville, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland...
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Mount Airy /ˈmaʊntəri/ is a city within Surry County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was...
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Mount Airy is the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian plantation house built...
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Fabry–Pérot interferometer (section Generic Airy distribution: The internal resonance enhancement factor)
the Airy linewidth Δ ν A i r y {\displaystyle \Delta \nu _{\rm {Airy}}} and the Airy finesse F A i r y {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}_{\rm {Airy}}} ....
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Mount Airy is a town in Carroll and Frederick counties in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of both the Washington Metropolitan Area and Baltimore...
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39°38′40″N 77°25′16″W / 39.64444°N 77.42111°W / 39.64444; -77.42111 Camp Airy is a Jewish sleep away summer camp located in Thurmont, Maryland at the edge...
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Ordnance Survey National Grid (redirect from Airy ellipsoid)
based on the OSGB36 datum (Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936, based on the Airy 1830 ellipsoid), and was introduced after the retriangulation of 1936–1962...
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Airy is a lunar impact crater located in the southern highlands. It is named in honour of British astronomer George Biddell Airy. It forms the southernmost...
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Astrological sign (redirect from Airy sign)
In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30-degree sectors that make up Earth's 360-degree orbit around the Sun. The signs enumerate from...
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Mount Airy Historic District can refer to: Mount Airy Historic District (Mount Airy, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland Mount Airy Historic District...
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Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Mount Airy is bounded on the northwest by the Cresheim Valley...
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The Mount Airy Lodge, built in the 1890s, was a five-star hotel and resort located in Paradise Township near Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. It was closed...
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Prime meridian (Greenwich) (redirect from Airy meridian)
meridian (at the time, one of many) was first established by Sir George Airy in 1851, and by 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as...
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Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was...
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The Airy processes are a family of stationary stochastic processes that appear as limit processes in the theory of random growth models and random matrix...
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An Airy beam, is a propagation invariant wave whose main intensity lobe propagates along a curved parabolic trajectory while being resilient to perturbations...
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Airy points (after George Biddell Airy) are used for precision measurement (metrology) to support a length standard in such a way as to minimise bending...
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The Mount Airy News is a three-day-a-week newspaper published in Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States. It was established in 1880. The News is one...
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Mount Airy is one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio. The neighborhood is home to Mount Airy Forest, one of the oldest urban reforestation projects...
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Isostasy (redirect from Airy hypothesis)
then already been proposed, in 1855, one by George Airy and the other by John Henry Pratt. The Airy hypothesis was later refined by the Finnish geodesist...
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Airy-0 is a crater inside the larger Airy Crater on Mars, whose location historically defined the Martian prime meridian. It is about 0.5 km (0.3 mile)...
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Major General Sir Christopher John Airy, KCVO, CBE (born 8 March 1934) is a retired British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding the London...
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Surry County, North Carolina (redirect from Mount Airy, NC μSA)
county seat is Dobson, and its largest community is Mount Airy. Surry county comprises the Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included...
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Mount Airy is an unincorporated community in northeastern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. Its altitude is 643 feet (196 m), and it is located...
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the Airy zeta function, studied by Crandall (1996), is a function analogous to the Riemann zeta function and related to the zeros of the Airy function...
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Hubert Airy (June 14, 1838 – June 1, 1903) was an English physician who was the pioneer in the study of a migraine. He was the son of Sir George Airy, Astronomer...
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