GALTON

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

1. English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)

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

• GALTON (noun)

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Meaning:

English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Francis Galton; Galton; Sir Francis Galton

Instance hypernyms:

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)