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[ˈhɛnri], (Noun)
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- the name of eight kings of England
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[ˈhɛnri], (Noun)
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- (1394–1460), Portuguese prince; known as Henry the Navigator. The third son of John I of Portugal, he organized many voyages of exploration, most notably south along the African coast, thus laying the foundation for Portuguese imperial expansion round Africa to East Asia
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[ˈhɛnri], (Noun)
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- the name of seven kings of the Germans, six of whom were also Holy Roman emperors
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[ˈhɛnri], (Noun)
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- the SI unit of inductance, equal to an electromotive force of one volt in a closed circuit with a uniform rate of change of current of one ampere per second
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late 19th century: named after Joseph Henry (1797–1878), the American physicist who discovered the phenomenon
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