TOMBAUGH

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

1. United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997)

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

• TOMBAUGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto (1906-1997)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Clyde Tombaugh; Clyde William Tombaugh; Tombaugh

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

NASA’s New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty mountain range on the lower-left edge of Pluto’s best known feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region).

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart feature, informally named “Tombaugh Regio”.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain.

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)