German - Turkish
Definition of nikolaus in German Turkish dictionary
- m Noel baba
- l. n. pr. Nikola
German - English
Definition of nikolaus in German English dictionary
- St. Nicholas
- Saint Nicholas
- nicholas
- Nicolas
- Nikolaus II-Land
- Nicholas II Land (old name)
- Nikolaus II-Land
- Severnaya Zemlya Islands
- Nikolaus Kopernikus (Astronom der Renaissance)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (Renaissance astronomer)
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English - English
Definition of nikolaus in English English dictionary
- {i} male first name
- Nikolaus August Otto
- born June 10, 1832, Holzhausen, Nassau died Jan. 26, 1891, Cologne, Ger. German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine. He built his first gasoline-powered engine in 1861, and in 1876 he built an internal-combustion engine using the four-stroke cycle (four strokes of the piston for each explosion), which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source. Though the four-stroke cycle was patented in 1862 by Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815-93), it is commonly known as the Otto cycle since Otto was the first to build such an engine
- Nikolaus Copernicus
- {i} (1473-1543) Polish astronomer, developer of the Copernican System (theory that the planets revolve around the sun)
- Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
- born Jan. 30, 1902, Leipzig, Ger. died Aug. 18, 1983, London, Eng. German-born British art historian. He studied at various German universities and taught at Göttingen University (1929-33) before moving to England to escape Nazism. There he taught at the Universities of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is best known for his writings on architecture, especially his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship. He conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953- ); many of these individual volumes have become classics