1) Ampère or watt 2) Columbus, to Colombia 3) Curie, Tesla or Fermi 4) Fahrenheit or Celsius 5) Franz Mesmer, for mesmerize 6) General Shrapnel or Burnside 7) Hellen, to Hellenes 8) Henry Ford 9) Jim Beam or Jack Daniel 10) Mae West for life jacket 11) Monroe for Monrovia 12) Name 13) Name derivation
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An eponym can be either an item which provides a name-source for a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item to be named, or it can also be an item which acts as a name-recipient. For example, Léon Theremin is the eponym (name-source) of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument; or, the medical term Parkinson`s disease is a me....
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personal name from which another name is derived
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• (n.) Alt. of Eponyme
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a word that is derived from a name. Examples: Elizabethan, McCarthyism.
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one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named. The word can refer, for example, to the usually mythical ancestor or totem animal or ...
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Something named after someone. For example, a condition called Shiel's syndrome might be named after someone named Shiel who discovered it or described and clearly delineated it. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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A word that is derived from the proper name of a person or place. For instance, the sandwich gained
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Means `named after` i.e. a word or term deriving from the name of a person or place or some other `proper noun` e.g. - Alzheimer disease - Named after a German doctor called Alzheimer - Pasteurisation - Named after Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist - Nicotine - Named after Dr Nicot, who introduced tobacco to France - Panama Fever - Malaria, wh …
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ep′ō-nim Definitions: 1. The name of a disease, structure, operation, or procedure, usually derived from the name of the person who discovered or described it first.
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Eponym: Something named after someone. For example, a condition called Shiel's syndrome might be named after someone named Shiel who discovered it or described and clearly delineated it.
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n] - the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named 2. [n] - a name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great
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eponym 1. Someone who gives, or is supposed to give, his/her name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities. Also in Latin form eponymus. 2. A name from which another name or word is derived; such as, 'sandwich' coming from The Earl of Sandwich and 'Rome'...
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An eponym refers to a person or thing after which something else is named. A person or thing’s name can come to be associated with the name of another character, person, product, object, activity, or even a discovery.
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noun the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); `Down`s syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down`
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a person, real or imaginary, from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to take its name: Brut, the supposed grandson of Aeneas, is the eponym of the Britons. · any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office. · a word based on or derived from a person's name.
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