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Joseph Heller
- noun - United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)
Joseph Hooker
- noun - United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
Joseph Lister
- noun - English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
Joseph Oliver
- noun - United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
Joseph Paxton
- noun - English architect (1801-1865)
Joseph Stalin
- noun - Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Joseph's Coat
- noun - perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon
Josh Billings
- noun - United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
Josiah Quincy
- noun - American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
- American patriot who presented the colonists'' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
Joule's Cycle
- - The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.