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(ăp′əl-tən)

A city of eastern Wisconsin on the Fox River north of Lake Winnebago. It grew in the mid-1800s as a center of paper production.

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Appleton

(ˈæpəltən)

(Biography) Sir Edward (Victor). 1892–1965, English physicist, noted particularly for his research on the ionosphere: Nobel prize for physics 1947

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Ap•ple•ton

(ˈæp əl tən)

n.

1. Sir Edward Victor, 1892–1965, British physicist.

2. a city in E Wisconsin. 66,310.

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Noun	1.	Appleton - English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966) Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton
	2.	Appleton - a town in eastern Wisconsin Badger State, WI, Wisconsin - a midwestern state in north central United States

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There were several stray volumes of Thackeray's minor writings, and I still have the 'Yellowplush Papers' in the smooth red cloth (now pretty well tattered) of Appleton's Popular Library, which I bought there.

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