FLINDERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Flinders mean? 

• FLINDERS (noun)
  The noun FLINDERS has 2 senses:

1. British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

2. bits and splinters and fragments

  Familiarity information: FLINDERS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLINDERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Flinders; Matthew Flinders; Sir Matthew Flinders

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bits and splinters and fragments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage

Hypernyms ("flinders" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

The research by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, uses state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)