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SPERRY
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• SPERRY (noun)
The noun SPERRY has 1 sense:
1. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
Familiarity information: SPERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Elmer Ambrose Sperry; Sperry
Instance hypernyms:
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
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