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Braun   /brɔn/   Listen
Braun

noun
1.
The German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945).  Synonym: Eva Braun.
2.
United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977).  Synonyms: von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun, Wernher von Braun.



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"Braun" Quotes from Famous Books



... appertains to that group of composites which have a head of small tubular florets surrounded by a broad border of rays. These rays, when counted, are observed to occur in definite numbers, which are connected with each other by a formula, known as "the series" of Braun and Schimper. In this formula, which commences with 1 and 2, each number is equal to the sum of the two foregoing figures. Thus 5, 8 and 13 are very frequent occurrences, and the following number, 21, is a most general one for apparently full rays, such as ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

... distributed hairs, which evidently serve the purpose of mechanically raising the old skin by their rigidity and position. These hairs then may be designated as casting hairs. That they are destined and calculated for this end is evident to me from the fact established by Dr. Braun, that the casting of the shells of the river crayfish is induced in exactly the same manner by the formation of a coating of hairs which mechanically loosens the old skin or shell from the new. Now the researches of Braun and Cartier have shown that these casting hairs—which ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Braun" :   rocket engineer, mistress, rocket scientist, kept woman, fancy woman



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