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Shannon

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Shan·non  (shnn)
A river, about 386 km (240 mi) long, rising in north-central Ireland and flowing generally south and west to the Atlantic Ocean through a long deep estuary.
Shannon [ˈʃænən]
n
(Placename) a river in the Republic of Ireland, rising in NW Co. Cavan and flowing south to the Atlantic by an estuary 113 km (70 miles) long: the longest river in the Republic of Ireland. Length: 260 km (161 miles)
Shannon2
n
(Biographies / Shannon, Claude (Elwood) (1916-2000) M, US, SCIENCE: mathematician) Claude (Elwood). 1916-2000, US mathematician, who first developed information theory
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Noun1.Shannon - United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)
Claude E. Shannon, Claude Elwood Shannon, Claude Shannon


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In these simultaneous observations they thought themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though they measured three hundred feet over all.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
Here's a grave I didn't see before -- this one in the iron railing -- oh, girls, look, see -- the stone says it's the grave of a middy who was killed in the fight between the Shannon and the Chesapeake.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Mary in Heaven has written the vow That the land shall not rest till the heretic blood, From the babe at the breast to the hand at the plough, Has rolled to the ocean like Shannon in flood!
The Mutiny of the Mavericks by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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