Hawking

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Hawking

1. An English surname originating as a patronymic, variant of Hawkins.

• The surname of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is used attributively in the name of various theories and results in physics.

• “Hawking”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hawking”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Hawking”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Hawking”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦoːkɪŋk]
• Rhymes: -kɪŋk
• Hyphenation: Haw‧king

Hawking m anim

1. Hawking, a surname, most notably applying to the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
   • 1989, Jiří Grygar, Vladimír Železný, Okna vesmíru dokořán, Praha: Naše vojsko, →ISBN, page 144:

     Hawking se však domnívá, že ve vesmiru mohou být i miniaturní černé díry a tam by byl proces vypařování naopak velmi intenzívní.

     However, Hawking believes that there can be also miniature black holes in the universe and their evaporation process would be, by contrast, very intense.