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LANGLEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)
Synonyms:
Langley; Samuel Pierpoint Langley
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Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("langley" is a kind of...):
unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)