Dewar

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dewar \Dew"ar\ (d[=u]"[~e]r), Dewar vessel \Dew"ar ves`sel\,
  Dewar flask \Dew"ar flask\ [After Sir James Dewar, British
     physicist.]
     A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, liquid
     nitrogen, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted
     so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the


     glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; --
     called also, according to the particular shape,
  
     {Dewar bulb},
  
     {Dewar tube}, etc.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Dewar
       n 1: vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific
            experiments [syn: {Dewar flask}]
       2: Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in
          cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask
          (1842-1923) [syn: {Sir James Dewar}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Dewar, OK (town, FIPS 20500)
    Location: 35.45818 N, 95.94669 W
    Population (1990): 921 (410 housing units)
    Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Dewar, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    919
     Housing Units (2000): 386
     Land area (2000):     0.919732 sq. miles (2.382095 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.007227 sq. miles (0.018719 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.926959 sq. miles (2.400814 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            20500
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             35.458946 N, 95.945973 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Dewar, OK
      Dewar