What does Hessian mean?

Definitions for Hessian
ˈhɛʃ ənhes·sian

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hessian boot, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, Wellington bootnoun

    (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot

Wiktionary

  1. Hessiannoun

    A boot with a low heel and semi-pointed toe, which became popular, initially among the military, in the 18th century.

  2. Hessiannoun

    Burlap, jute.

  3. Hessianadjective

    Of, from or relating to Hesse in Germany.

  4. Hessiannoun

    A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

  5. Hessiannoun

    A mercenary soldier, especially a German one who fought with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

  6. Etymology: Hesse + -ian

ChatGPT

  1. hessian

    The Hessian is a square matrix of second-order partial derivatives of a scalar-valued function, or scalar field. It describes the local curvature of a function of many variables. The Hessian matrix was developed by Otto Hessian in the 19th century. It is a key tool in multivariate calculus, particularly for optimization problems.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hessianadjective

    of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians

  2. Hessiannoun

    a native or inhabitant of Hesse

  3. Hessiannoun

    a mercenary or venal person

  4. Hessiannoun

    see Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a

Wikidata

  1. Hessian

    The Hessians were 18th-century German soldiers hired through their rulers by the British Empire. About 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War; nearly half were from the Hesse region of Germany; the others came from similar small German states. In the context of the British service, they were all referred to as "Hessians." The American colonists called them mercenaries. They were hired in units, not as individuals. They received wages, but the prince of their respective states received most of the funds; Britain found it easier to borrow money to pay for their service than to recruit its own soldiers. The British used the Hessians in several conflicts, including in Ireland, but they are most widely associated with combat operations in the American Revolutionary War. They provided extensive manpower to support the American Loyalist cause. The pro-independence side made propaganda use of the fact that the soldiers were non-British mercenaries. They also offered them land bounties to desert and join the Americans. Several more German units were placed on garrison duty in the British Isles to free up British regulars for service in North America.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hessian

    hesh′i-an, adj. of or pertaining to Hesse.—n. a native of Hesse: (pl.) short for Hessian boots, a kind of long boots first worn by Hessian troops.—Hessian fly, a dipterous insect, in its larval state attacking stems of barley, wheat, and rye. [From Hesse, a grand-duchy of the German Empire.]

Etymology and Origins

  1. Hessian

    An Americanism for a hireling, a fighter for pay, a mercenary politician. The Hessian soldiers have always been ready to enlist in a foreign service for pay.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HESSIAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hessian is ranked #115639 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hessian surname appeared 151 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hessian.

    94% or 142 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hessian in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hessian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Hessian in a Sentence

  1. Tarek Al-Wazir:

    For that reason, too, we have an interest in K+S's remaining a north Hessian company.

  2. Jens Spahn:

    We are therefore in close contact with the Hessian authorities to come to a solution between the federal government and authorities there and I assume that we will succeed in that in the next few hours so that the plane can take off quickly.

  3. Jamille Swainson:

    I asked her to have a look inside the hessian sack and then went down on one knee, she was speechless.

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