GALILEO

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• GALILEO (noun)
  The noun GALILEO has 1 sense:

1. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)

  Familiarity information: GALILEO used as a noun is very rare.

• GALILEO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Galileo; Galileo Galilei

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Derivation:

Galilean (of or relating to Galileo or his works)

 Context examples 

The mission ended in 2003, but newly resurrected data from Galileo’s first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon’s environment — which is unlike any other in the solar system.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

The Galileo mission found strong evidence that a subsurface ocean of salty water is in contact with a rocky seafloor.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

At the time of the 1997 flyby, about 124 miles (200 kilometers) above Europa's surface, the Galileo team didn't suspect the spacecraft might be grazing a plume erupting from the icy moon.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

The Galileo spacecraft didn't have a visible spectrometer.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

You persecute the prophets! Galileo! Darwin, and I— (Prolonged cheering and complete interruption.)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Past NASA missions of exploration that have visited the Jovian system (Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini and New Horizons), along with ground-based observations, have located over 150 active volcanoes on Io so far.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material, which were later confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission flew by Ganymede, confirming the moon's ocean, and showing it extends to depths of hundreds of miles.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

The team used the HARPS-North instrument on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands to conduct follow-up observations to obtain a mass measurement of the rocky behemoth.

(Astronomers confounded by massive rocky world, NASA)

Gal is a non-SI, CGS system unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second, named after Galileo.

(Gal, NCI Thesaurus)