berg
[ burg ]
/ bɜrg /
noun Oceanography.
Origin of berg
First recorded in 1815–25; by shortening
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Definition for berg (2 of 2)
Berg
[ berg or, German berk for 1; burg for 2, 3 ]
/ bɛrg or, German bɛrk for 1; bɜrg for 2, 3 /
noun
Al·ban
[ahl-bahn, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn, ˈɑl bɑn/,1885–1935,
Austrian composer.
Patricia JanePatty,1918–2006,
U.S. golfer.
Paul,born 1926,
U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1980.
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British Dictionary definitions for berg (3 of 3)
Berg
/ (bɜːɡ, German bɛrk) /
noun
Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
Paul . born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980
Medical definitions for berg
Berg
[ bûrg ]
American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.