reichenbach
reichenbach Lexical Profile
• noun
A series of waterfalls on the Reichenbach stream in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, famous in literature as the site of the final, presumed-fatal struggle between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty.
A German surname, notably belonging to Hans Reichenbach, a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science and founder of the Berlin Circle, or Carl Reichenbach, the chemist who discovered paraffin and creosote.
"In his philosophy of space and time, Reichenbach argued that geometry is heavily dependent on the physical properties of the universe."
A town in the Vogtlandkreis district in Saxony, Germany, historically known for its textile industry.
Word Origin & Etymology
From the German toponym and surname 'Reichenbach', literally meaning 'rich stream', derived from Old High German 'rihhi' (rich, powerful) and 'bah' (stream, brook).
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