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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937);
[syn: Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Marconi \Mar*co"ni\, prop. a. [After Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), Italian inventor.] Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Marconi n 1: Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) [syn: Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi]