See Also: Alfven(dictionary)
Alfven, Hannes(medicine)
Alfven velocity(medicine)
Alfven waves(medicine)
Hannes Alfven(medicine)
Alfven ion cyclotron instability(medicine)

Squanto (oh) and Alfven (iou)


Squanto (oh)



(?1585-1622) a Native American who helped the Pilgrim Fathers, the first English people to come to America, by showing them where to hunt and fish and how to plant corn

Alfven (iou)



Alfven noun. M20.
[Hannes Alfven (1908-95), Swedish physicist.]
Physics. Used attrib. with ref. to Alfven's discoveries.
Alfven speed, Alfven velocity the speed of an Alfven wave in a plasma of given properties. Alfven wave a transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave travelling in the direction of the magnetic field in a magnetized plasma.