An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous...

Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes...

Dryops (/ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ means 'man of oak') was the eponym of the Dryopians. Dryops was the son of the river god Spercheus and the...

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos"...

eponym dating system was a calendar system for Assyria, for a period of over one thousand years. Every year was associated with the name, an eponym,...

The Assyrian Eponym Chronicles represent an important source for the chronology of the Ancient Near East. They are chronicles or annals, which list at...

generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance...

Sisak (Armenian: Սիսակ) was the legendary ancestor of the Armenian princely house of Syuni, also called Siunids, Syunid and Syuni. The Armenian historian...

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. Here is a list of eponyms: A B C D E...

etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym. Americas (North America and South America) – Amerigo...

inguinal triangle is a region of the abdominal wall. It is also known by the eponym Hesselbach's triangle, after Franz Kaspar Hesselbach. It is defined by the...

fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown. It is the first book and eponym of the series. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner...

This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the person...

States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. Per the 2020 census, the population of the village was...

laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. Eponym Fields of science List of eponymous laws (overlaps with this...

The Eponym Group (Persian: گروه همنام; Hamnam) was an electoral list for the 1980 Iranian legislative election claiming "it would choose its candidates...

and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one...

The contents of this article is a list of things named after the Indian-American theoretical physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar limit...

The German mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) is the eponym of many things. Riemann bilinear relations Riemann conditions Riemann form Riemann...

and third cuneiform bones, the cuboid bone and the metatarsal bones. The eponym of Lisfranc joint is 18th–19th-century surgeon and gynecologist Jacques...

Greek: Σολύμου) may refer to two individuals: Solymus, an ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas (i.e the area around Solyma), in south-west...

General Secretary position. A common confusion is with the word and concept eponym. This means that an institution, object, location, artefact, etc., takes...

The mathematician Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014) is the eponym of many things. Ax–Grothendieck theorem Birkhoff–Grothendieck theorem Brieskorn–Grothendieck...

These are lists of places by eponym, i.e. lists grouping places named after the same person. Abu Bakar of Johor Benjamin Franklin C. N. Annadurai Charles...

Cassotis (Ancient Greek: Κασσοτίς) was a nymph from Parnassus, and the eponym of a spring at the Oracle at Delphi which was dedicated to Apollo. Pausanias...

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. There are over 100 topics all named after this German mathematician and...

mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: [ˈʀʊŋə ˈkʊta]), in the...

disorder. Eponyms are a longstanding tradition in Western science and medicine. Being awarded an eponym is regarded as an honor: "Eponymity, not anonymity...

public policy fellow, lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President...

This is a list of special function eponyms in mathematics, to cover the theory of special functions, the differential equations they satisfy, named differential...