• A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
• An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
• (chiefly West Yorkshire) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
• Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
• German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
• a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
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