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Gibbs
1. James. 1682--1754, British architect; his buildings include St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London (1722--26), and the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford (1737--49)
2. Josiah Willard. 1839--1903, US physicist and mathematician: founder of chemical thermodynamics
gibbs [gibz]
(physics)
A unit of amount of adsorption, equal to a surface concentration of 10-6mole per square meter.
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He got to his feet with promptitude, for he knew that no small matter would have brought Gibbs into such a place at all.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
There was John Gibbs hadn't a mole on his face no more nor you have, an' I was all for having you hire
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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