Shannon

Ireland's longest river

Shannon is a given name used for both males and females, though now predominantly female in the United States.

It derives from the River Shannon, Ireland's longest river.

The name was popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

In information theory, Shannon refers to Claude Shannon, whose work established the mathematical foundations of digital communication.

river

estuary

Tidal mixing zone

Ennis · waterway · navigation · boating · fishing · angling · freshwater · confluence · watershed · boglands

information

entropy

Quantified chaos in systems

encoding · decoding · redundancy · compression · noise · signal · transmission · capacity · coding · binary

name

Ashley

Tree-derived given name

Emily · Fiona · Grace · Hannah · Isabella · Jessica · Kaitlyn · Lauren · Megan · Natalie

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