Dalton
pronunciation
How to pronounce Dalton in British English:
UK [ˈdɔ:ltən]
How to pronounce Dalton in American English:
US [ˈdɔltən]
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- Noun:
- English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
Word Origin
- Dalton
- in reference to a system of school education designed by Helen Parkhurst, 1920, from Dalton, Massachusetts, U.S., where it was first adopted. For Daltonism see color blindness.
Example
- 1. Investment bankers and the women who hate them , classmates from steiner , dalton and brown .
- 2. When dalton mcguinty was elected ontario 's premier in 2003 , he embraced " whole-system reform " .
- 3. And the table talk this day centers on kristen dalton , the 22-year-old wilmingtonian who represented the u.s. in the previous night 's miss universe pageant .
- 4. In this period , named after the meteorologist john dalton , average temperatures in parts of europe fell by 2c .
- 5. The study , conducted by university of toronto professor esme fuller thompson and graduate students angela dalton and rukshan mehta doesn 't prove that a couple 's divorce will cause strokes in their kids .