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Airy may
refer to: Sir
George Biddell Airy (1801–1892),
British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, for...
- sciences, the
Airy function (or
Airy function of the
first kind) Ai(x) is a
special function named after the
British astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801–1892)...
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Mount Airy is the name of
several places in the
Commonwealth of Virginia:
Mount Airy,
Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian
plantation house built...
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Mount Airy may
refer to:
Mount Airy,
Georgia Mount Airy,
Louisiana Mount Airy,
Maryland Mount Airy (Davidsonville, Maryland),
listed on the NRHP in Maryland...
- In optics, the
Airy disk (or
Airy disc) and
Airy pattern are
descriptions of the best-focused spot of
light that a
perfect lens with a
circular aperture...
- Sir
George Biddell Airy KCB FRS (/ˈɛəri/; 27 July 1801 – 2
January 1892) was an
English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the
Lucasian Professor...
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Airy points (after
George Biddell Airy) are used for
precision measurement (metrology) to
support a
length standard in such a way as to
minimise bending...
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Airy-0 is a
crater inside the
larger Airy Crater on Mars,
whose location historically defined the
Martian prime meridian. It is
about 0.5 km (0.3 mile)...
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Mount Airy, near
Warsaw in
Richmond County, Virginia, is the
first neo-Palladian
villa mid-Georgian
plantation house built in the
United States. It was...
- An
Airy beam, is a
propagation invariant wave
whose main
intensity lobe
propagates along a
curved parabolic trajectory while being resilient to perturbations...
