edison

IPA: ˈɛdɪsʌn

Root Word: Edison

An English patronymic or matronymic (or just pamatronymic) surname derived from Adam and Edith.
Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor and businessman.
An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
A small city in Calhoun County, Georgia, United States.
A village in Furnas County, Nebraska, United States.
A township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, renamed after Thomas Edison, who had his main laboratory here, in 1955.
A village in Morrow County, Ohio, United States.
A census-designated place in Skagit County, Washington, United States.
An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.
A former unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada, near modern Westlock; named after Thomas Edison.

Examples of "edison" in Sentences

Edison was no stranger to the area.
On Edison and electricity and so on.
Edison is commonly credited with the lightbulb.
The Hollywood oligopoly replaced the Edison monopoly.
It was able to be viewed using Thomas Edison's kinetoscope.
Edison patented the sound recording and reproducing phonograph in 1878.
He describes the unidirectional thermionic emission as the Edison Effect.
On Saturday, April 14, 1894, Edison's Kinetoscope began commercial operation.
The gramaphone was an Edison cylinder phonograph with wax placed in the groves.
In 1894 Selig saw Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope at an exhibition in Dallas, Texas.