Hawking

See also: hawking

English

Stephen Hawking

Etymology

Variant of Hawkin

Proper noun

Hawking

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

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
• Bekenstein-Hawking formula
• Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
• Hartle-Hawking state
• Hawking energy
• Hawkingian
• Hawking mass
• Hawking radiation
• Hawking's paradox
• Hawking's theorem
• Hawking-Zel'dovich radiation
• Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet

 

Related terms

• Halkin
• Hawkin
• Hawkings
• Hawkingson
• Hawkins
• Hawkinson

 

Translations

surname

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 霍金 (fok³ gam¹)

  Mandarin: 霍金 (zh) (Huòjīn)

• Czech: Hawking m anim
• Hebrew: הוקינג
• Russian: Хокинг (ru) m or f (Xoking)

See also

• Hawkwing

 

Further reading

• “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.

Czech

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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.

Declension

Declension of Hawking (velar masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Hawking	Hawkingové
genitive	Hawkinga	Hawkingů
dative	Hawkingovi	Hawkingům
accusative	Hawkinga	Hawkingy
vocative	Hawkingu	Hawkingové
locative	Hawkingovi	Hawkinzích
instrumental	Hawkingem	Hawkingy

Derived terms

• Hawkingovo záření
• Hawkingův