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Heaviside layer
Heaviside layer
noun
- the E region of the ionosphere See E region
Heaviside layer
/ ĕ′ŧ-ī′ /
- See E region
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Heaviside layer1
First recorded in 1910–15; named after O. Heaviside
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Experimentally confirmed in the 1920s, this reflective portion is now known as the Kennelly–Heaviside layer.
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The pips and the signals were bright and clear, coming through the ionosphere, the Heaviside layer as they had been designed to do.
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The signal was coming from "M-I-T-A," the Earth company's home station on the Moon, outside the Heaviside layer.
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It was a bare hundred miles or less to that wonderful world below, but there was the Heaviside layer, and the weak signals beat but feebly against it.
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They are already in operation, sending their defensive waves against the Heaviside layer.
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