英英字典: Hooke
Overview of noun hooke
The noun hooke has 1 sense
- Hooke, Robert Hooke -- (English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703))
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