Hessian

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The term Hessian refers to the inhabitants of the German state of Hesse.

Hessian may also mean:

  • Hessian (soldiers), soldiers from German states with-in the Holy Roman Empire who fought in the American Revolutionary War and other conflicts
  • Hessian dialects, West Central German group of dialects
  • Hessian (protocol), a binary protocol for web services developed by Caucho Technology
  • Hessian (boot), knee-high tasseled boot worn by military officers in Victorian-era England
  • Hessian matrix, in mathematics, the matrix of all second partial derivatives of a function of several real variables
  • Hessian Fly, a significant cereal pest
  • Hessian (Cloth), coarse woven material (chiefly United Kingdom and Ireland), akin to Burlap (chiefly North American)

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  • This page was last modified on 28 October 2008, at 02:20.

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