Whewell is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Whewell in a sentence
Whewell meaning
A surname.
Using Whewell
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, whewell often appears in combinations such as: william whewell, whewell in.
Context around Whewell
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Whewell
- In this selection, "whewell" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, william, work and first stand out and add context to how "whewell" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after this whewell s behaviour and but william whewell found the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "whewell" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with whewell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
William Whewell first mapped co-tidal lines ending with a nearly global chart in 1836. (15 words)
The English word scientist is relatively recent—first coined by William Whewell in the 19th century. (16 words)
The term "physicist" was coined by William Whewell in his 1840 book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. (18 words)
A clash with Roderick Murchison led in 1838 to his withdrawal from further involvement. citation citation At the end of the same year he sent in his resignation as Lucasian professor, walking away also from the Cambridge struggle with Whewell. (40 words)
The Wolfson Building (built 1968–1972, Architects Co-Partnership) is located to the south of Whewell's Court, on top of a podium above shops, this building resembles a brick-clad ziggurat, and is used exclusively for first-year accommodation. (40 words)
The term scientist was coined by William Whewell in an 1834 review of Mary Somerville 's On the Connexion of the Sciences. citation But the word did not enter general use until nearly the end of the same century. (39 words)
Example sentences (13)
After this, Whewell's "behaviour changed" and he became "angry" at her for "getting rid of his dog" around a year and a half previously as she was "unable to look after the dog alone".
A clash with Roderick Murchison led in 1838 to his withdrawal from further involvement. citation citation At the end of the same year he sent in his resignation as Lucasian professor, walking away also from the Cambridge struggle with Whewell.
After six weeks, Ramanujan moved out of Neville's house and took up residence on Whewell's Court, a five-minute walk from Hardy's room.
Anode and cathode in electrochemical cells Configuration of the electrode An electrode in an electrochemical cell is referred to as either an anode or a cathode (words that were coined by William Whewell at Faraday's request).
Babbage's reforming direction looked to see university education more inclusive, universities doing more for research, a broader syllabus and more interest in applications; but William Whewell found the programme unacceptable.
In this work, Whewell had discarded the possibility of existing life in other planets, on the basis of theological arguments, but this was a position with which both Wagner and Gauss disagreed.
The English word scientist is relatively recent—first coined by William Whewell in the 19th century.
The term "physicist" was coined by William Whewell in his 1840 book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.
The term scientist was coined by William Whewell in an 1834 review of Mary Somerville 's On the Connexion of the Sciences. citation But the word did not enter general use until nearly the end of the same century.
The terms uniformitarianism for this idea, and catastrophism for the opposing viewpoint, were coined by William Whewell in a review of Lyell's book.
The Wolfson Building (built 1968–1972, Architects Co-Partnership) is located to the south of Whewell's Court, on top of a podium above shops, this building resembles a brick-clad ziggurat, and is used exclusively for first-year accommodation.
Whewell's suggestion of the term was partly satirical, a response to changing conceptions of science itself in which natural knowledge was increasingly seen as distinct from other forms of knowledge.
William Whewell first mapped co-tidal lines ending with a nearly global chart in 1836.
Common combinations with whewell
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- william whewell 7×
- whewell in 4×