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HIPPARCHUS
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• HIPPARCHUS (noun)
The noun HIPPARCHUS has 1 sense:
1. Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
Familiarity information: HIPPARCHUS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
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