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Maxwell¹

  • /ˈmækswɛl/

Sounds like maxwell

Where it comes from

From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).

proper noun

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose. A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.
  2. Any of various widely known persons so named, such as James Clerk Maxwell.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname. A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.”
  4. A census-designated place in Colusa County, California.
  5. A township in Sangamon County, Illinois.
  6. An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
  7. A minor city in Story County, Iowa.
  8. A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.
  9. A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
  10. A village in Colfax County, New Mexico.
  11. An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
  12. A hamlet in Grey Highlands municipality, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
  13. A locality in the Wagga Wagga council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.

maxwell²

Where it comes from

From James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician.

noun maxwells

  1. A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.

    Similar: line

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mx, scott, boltzmann, jamaica, clerk, stirling, hanley, perceval, mack, maxx, maxie, max, mackie, mac, maxim, maximilian

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Ελληνικάμάξγουελ máxgouel

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@misc{maxwell_2026,
  title = {maxwell},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/maxwell},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}