Heaviside layer

noun

1. E layer.

Heaviside layer

noun

1. the E region of the ionosphere See E region

Heaviside layer

/ hĕv′ē-sīd′ /

1. See E region

Word History and Origins

Origin of Heaviside layer¹

First recorded in 1910–15; named after O. Heaviside

Example Sentences

Experimentally confirmed in the 1920s, this reflective portion is now known as the Kennelly–Heaviside layer.

From Nature

The pips and the signals were bright and clear, coming through the ionosphere, the Heaviside layer as they had been designed to do.

From Project Gutenberg

The signal was coming from "M-I-T-A," the Earth company's home station on the Moon, outside the Heaviside layer.

From Project Gutenberg

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 were in the atmosphere, screaming through it as their relux glowed instantaneously in the Heaviside layer, then was through before damage could be done.

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