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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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  1. English rock group Led Zeppelin's "eponymous" first album has a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the front cover.

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