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Maxwell

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. male given name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmækswɛl/

name

Etymology: From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose.

    “A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.”

  2. Any of various widely known persons so named, such as James Clerk Maxwell.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    “A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.””

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  12. A hamlet in Grey Highlands municipality, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
  13. A locality in the Wagga Wagga council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

noun

Etymology: From James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician.

  1. A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.