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Maxwellian, a. Physics.|mæksˈwɛlɪən|
Also maxwellian.
[f. Maxwell2 + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or originated by J. C. Maxwell; in accordance with Maxwell's theory.
1886Electrician 26 Mar. 386/2 The Maxwellian stress. 1914L. Silberstein Theory of Relativity ii. 48 In using the Maxwellian stress..in his theory, Lorentz considers it..as a system of ‘merely fictitious tensions’. 1939Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXIX. 253 The light from an electric bulb, rendered nearly parallel by a condenser, filled a large lens at whose principal focus the eye was placed. This lens appeared uniformly illuminated by the ‘Maxwellian view’. 1958H. J. Gray Dict. Physics 318/1 The Maxwellian view refers to the method of making a lens apparently flooded with a uniform brightness: a real image of a source of light is formed by a lens in the pupil of the eye. An extended area of bright white light or coloured light is produced and has wide application in photometry and colorimetry. 1968R. A. Lyttleton Mysteries Solar Syst. i. 32 For a whole group of individual stars, these relative speeds are distributed rather like the maxwellian distribution of velocities for the particles of a gas. |