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mann­Whitney test

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A habitational surname

A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s

derived from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s

{i} family name; Eli Whitney (1765-1825) U.S. inventor who invented the cotton gin; male or female first name; Mount Whitney, mountain in the Sierra Nevada (California)

A peak, 4,420.7 m (14,494 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of east-central California. It is the highest elevation in the continental United States. Morrow Dwight Whitney Whitney Amos Whitney Eli Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney John Hay Whitney Mount Whitney William Collins

the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high)

United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high) United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

المصطلحات ذات الصلة

Whitney Houston

(born 1963) American pop singer, winner of the 1993 Grammy Awards for Best Record and Best Album for her music from the soundtrack to the film "The Bodyguard

Amos Whitney

born Oct. 8, 1832, Biddeford, Maine, U.S. died Aug. 5, 1928, Portland, Maine U.S. manufacturer. He was apprenticed at age

Amos Whitney

In 1860, with Francis Pratt, he founded the firm of Pratt & Whitney, originally to manufacture thread spoolers. It later diversified into the manufacture of innovative designs of guns, cannons, sewing machines, and typesetting machines; instruments for measurement developed there proved of great value to science and industry. Today a separate company, formed from the toolworks in 1925, produces aircraft engines and space-propulsion systems as part of the United Technologies Corporation

Dwight Whitney Morrow

born Jan. 11, 1873, Huntington, W.Va., U.S. died Oct. 5, 1931, Englewood, N.J. U.S. lawyer and diplomat. He practiced law in New York City (1905-14), helping draft a workers' compensation law (1911). He became a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. (1914-27) and organized the Kennecott Copper Corp. During World War I he was an adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, and after the war he helped devise a national aviation policy. He served as ambassador to Mexico (1927-30). He briefly served in the U.S. Senate (1931) before his death. His daughter Anne married Charles A. Lindbergh

Eli Whitney

{i} (1765-1825) U.S. inventor who invented the cotton gin

Eli Whitney

born Dec. 8, 1765, Westboro, Mass., U.S. died Jan. 8, 1825, New Haven, Conn. U.S. inventor, engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin (1793), which led to greatly increased production of the short-staple cotton grown in much of the South, making the region prosperous. The most important innovation credited to Whitney may be the concept of mass production of interchangeable parts. His idea of manufacturing quantities of identical parts for assembly into muskets, after undertaking in 1797 to supply the U.S. government with 10,000 muskets in two years, helped inaugurate the vastly important American System of manufacture

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

v. orig. Gertrude Vanderbilt born Jan. 9, 1875, New York, N.Y., U.S. died April 18, 1942, New York City U.S. sculptor and art patron. Great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, she was born to great wealth and studied sculpture in New York City and Paris. Among her major works were the Titanic Memorial (1914-31) in Washington, D.C., and Victory Arch (1918-19) in New York. All her works were simple, direct, and traditional. In 1929 she offered to donate her collection of about 500 works by modern American artists to the Metropolitan Museum of Art but was refused by the traditionalist director. The next year she founded the Whitney Museum of American Art, also in New York City, which opened in 1931; today it is the foremost museum of American art

John Hay Whitney

born Aug. 17, 1904, Ellsworth, Maine, U.S. died Feb. 8, 1982, Manhasset, N.Y. U.S. multimillionaire and sportsman. The son of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, "Jock" Whitney attended Yale University and later the University of Oxford, which he left to manage the family fortune on his father's death. He became an internationally ranked polo player, his stables produced notable racehorses, he invested in successful films and Broadway plays, and he boasted one of the finest art collections in the U.S. As a combat-intelligence captain in World War II, he was captured in France but escaped; he was later awarded the Legion of Merit. He served as ambassador to Britain (1956-61). As publisher and (from 1961) editor in chief of the New York Herald Tribune, he tried to revitalize the paper, but it folded in 1966. He founded the John Hay Whitney Foundation in 1946

Mount Whitney

{i} Whitney, mountain in the Sierra Nevada (California)

Mount Whitney

a mountain in California that is part of the Sierra Nevada line of mountains. Peak in the Sierra Nevada, southeast-central California, U.S. Located in Sequoia National Park, it is 14,494 ft (4,418 m) high, the highest point in the continental U.S. outside of Alaska. It was first climbed in 1873

William C Whitney

born July 5, 1841, Conway, Mass., U.S. died Feb. 2, 1904, New York, N.Y. U.S. politician. He practiced law in New York City, where he helped Samuel Tilden overthrow the corrupt political boss William Marcy Tweed; he also served as corporation counsel for the city (1875-82). As U.S. secretary of the navy (1885-89), he rebuilt the neglected fleet with a major shipbuilding program that included the battleship Maine (see destruction of the Maine). He returned to New York, where he became co-owner of the city's first rapid-transit system

William Collins Whitney

born July 5, 1841, Conway, Mass., U.S. died Feb. 2, 1904, New York, N.Y. U.S. politician. He practiced law in New York City, where he helped Samuel Tilden overthrow the corrupt political boss William Marcy Tweed; he also served as corporation counsel for the city (1875-82). As U.S. secretary of the navy (1885-89), he rebuilt the neglected fleet with a major shipbuilding program that included the battleship Maine (see destruction of the Maine). He returned to New York, where he became co-owner of the city's first rapid-transit system

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المصطلحات ذات الصلة

mann­Whitney testi

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الواصلة

Whit·ney

التركية النطق

hwîtni

النطق

/ˈhwətnē/ /ˈhwɪtniː/

علم أصول الكلمات

() Place name from Middle English atten whiten ey "by the white island".Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.