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FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL
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• FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL (noun)
The noun FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL has 1 sense:
1. German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)
Familiarity information: FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL used as a noun is very rare.
• FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Bessel; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
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