MACGREGOR

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

1. Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)

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

• MACGREGOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

MacGregor; Rob Roy; Robert MacGregor

Instance hypernyms:

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

 Context examples 

From the same radar data and ice cores that had been collected nearby, MacGregor and his colleagues determined that the ice in the area was at least 79,000 years old.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

MacGregor studied the raw radar images that are used to map the topography of the bedrock beneath the ice, including those collected by NASA’s Operation IceBridge.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

"The only other circular structure that might approach this size would be a collapsed volcanic caldera," MacGregor said.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

Following the finding of that first crater, Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, checked topographic maps of the rock beneath Greenland’s ice for signs of other craters.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

Though the structure isn’t as clearly circular as the Hiawatha crater, MacGregor estimated the second crater’s diameter at 22.7 miles.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)