Fechner

Definition: Fechner

Fechner

Noun

1. German physicist who derived Fechner's Law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887).

Date "Fechner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Fechner

Synonym: Gustav Theodor Fechner (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fechner

English words defined with "Fechner": Gustav Theodor Fechner. (references)

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	Camp Fechner, CCC Camp, Officer Quarters Chimney.Credit: Merv Coleman.
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"Fechner" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fechner" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	3	202,518

The following table summarizes the usage of "Fechner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Fechner	Last name	170	43,853
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "Fechner": Gustav Theodor Fechner. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Fechner": Fechner-birkoff.
	Ending with "Fechner": Weber-fechner.
	Containing "Fechner": Weber-Fechner law.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-n-r"
	-1 letter: fencer, french.
	-2 letters: cheer, fence, hence.
	-3 letters: cere, chef, eche, erne, fere, fern, free, here, hern, reef.
	-4 letters: cee, ere, ern, fee, feh, fen, fer, hen, her, nee, rec, ree, ref.
	-5 letters: ef, eh, en, er, he, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-h-n-r"
	+1 letter: frenched, frenches.
	+3 letters: franchisee, greenfinch, henceforth.
	+4 letters: enfranchise, franchisees, frenchified, frenchifies, furtherance, neckerchief, thenceforth.
	+5 letters: cheerfulness, enfranchised, enfranchises, forechecking, forereaching, furtherances, greenfinches, handkerchief, henceforward, neckerchiefs, sceneshifter.
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