Ra·bi (r  b ) also Ra·bi·a (r -b)n. Either the third or the fourth month of the year in the Islamic calendar. See Table at calendar. [Arabic rab  ', spring, fourth; see rb in Semitic roots.] |
| Ra·bi (räb), Isidor Isaac 1898-1988. Austrian-born American physicist. He won a 1944 Nobel Prize for his study of magnetic movement of atomic particles. |
rabi [ˈrʌbɪ]
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (in Pakistan, India, etc.) a crop that is harvested at the end of winter Compare kharif
[Urdu: spring crop, from Arabic rabī` spring]
Rabi [ˈrɑːbɪ]
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(Biographies / Rabi, Isidor Isaac (1898-1988) M, USnational of birth: Austrian, SCIENCE: physicist) Isidor Isaac. 1898-1988, US physicist, born in Austria, who devised the atomic and molecular beam resonance method of observing atomic spectra. Nobel prize for physics 1944
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