muller Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
    Paul Hermann Muller.
  2. noun Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
    Karl Alex Muller.
  3. noun German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
    Johannes Peter Muller.
  4. noun German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
    Regiomontanus; Johann Muller.
  5. noun British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
    Max Muller; Friedrich Max Muller.
  6. noun United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
    Hermann Joseph Muller.
  7. noun a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
    ruminator; muser; ponderer.
  8. noun a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
    pounder; pestle.
  9. noun a vessel in which wine is mulled

WordNet

Mull"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, mulls.
  2. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
Mull"er noun
Etymology
OE. mullen to pulverize, bruise; cf. Icel. mylja; prob. akin to E. mold soil. See Mold soil, and cf. Mull dirt.
Definitions
  1. A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

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