Poisson

/ˈpwɑː.sɒn/ name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The Poisson distribution.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname in French

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"I refuse to eat fish! Don't you know that the French word for "fish" is "poisson," which looks just like the English word "poison"? And doesn't that suggest something to you?"

Etymology

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

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