Meanings
hartley1
plural hartleys
- A unit of information (symbol Hart) representing the information content of an event if the probability of that event occurring is 1/10. It is therefore equal to the information contained in one decimal digit
Hartley2
plural Hartleys · alternative Artley
- A place in England:
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7808).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ605675).
- countableuncountableA village in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst parish, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7534).
- countableuncountableA suburb of Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, on the border with Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3375)
- A place in the United States:
- countableuncountableA census-designated place in Solano County, California.
- countableuncountableA city and township in O'Brien County, Iowa.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Gogebic County, Michigan.
- countableuncountableA township in Union County, Pennsylvania.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Haakon County, South Dakota.
- countableuncountableA census-designated place in Hartley County, Texas.
- abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Hartley County.
- countableuncountableA locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- countableA habitational surname from Old English.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
hartley · noun
Named after Ralph Hartley (1888–1970), electronics researcher.
Full word history & related roots →Hartley · proper noun
- Old Englishheorot“hart, stag”
- EnglishHartley
From Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hart + -ley (“lea”).
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Rhymes with hartley
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Cite this entry
hartley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hartley
“hartley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hartley. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hartley,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hartley.
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