Eponymous

Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | Author: markross

adjective

1.Of, relating to, or being the person after which something is named. Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous   hero of the book.

2.Named (or thought to have been named) after a person, whether real or fictitious. Pasteurization is an  eponymous term from the name of its creator Louis Pasteur.
A Joule and a Watt are eponymous measures of unit.

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   markross 
   Thursday, 25. December 2008

   English rock group Led Zeppelin’s “eponymous” first album has a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the front cover.

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