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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of eastern Wisconsin on the Fox River north of Lake Winnebago. It grew in the mid-1800s as a center of paper production.
  • Edward Victor,British physicist. He won a 1947 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the F layer of the ionosphere.

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  • proper noun Any of several placenames in England, named for an apple enclosure
  • proper noun An An English habitational surname from either of the places.

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  • noun a town in eastern Wisconsin
  • noun English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)

Etymologies

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From Old English æppel and -tun

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