hartley

n. a common last name for people in English-speaking countries.

n. a habitational surname derived from Old English, originally referring to a 'stag wood' or 'deer meadow'.

“The novelist L.P. Hartley is famous for writing 'The Go-Between'.”

“The archival records indicate that the Hartley family held significant land in the northern counties during the seventeenth century.”

Formal

n. the name of several towns and villages in England, the US, and Australia.

n. a toponym used for various settlements, most notably several villages in Kent, Cumbria, and Northumberland.

“They decided to stop for lunch in the small village of Hartley.”

“Hartley remains a quiet residential parish, though its proximity to the railway has led to recent suburban development.”

Formal

n. a technical unit used to measure information, equal to one decimal digit.

n. a logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on decadic logarithms rather than the binary bits used in computing.

“The scientist measured the data transfer in hartleys instead of bits.”

“In information theory, one hartley represents the information content of an event with a probability of one-tenth.”

Technical