Poisson

A surname in French

Proper noun

  1. A surname in French

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French Poisson. The noun sense is named after French mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840).

Noun

  1. The Poisson distribution.

Forms

Poissons

Related

Poisson cohomology Poisson distribution Poisson effect Poissonian Poisson manifold Poisson noise Poisson process Poisson's ratio

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