WEBB

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• WEBB (noun)
  The noun WEBB has 2 senses:

1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943)

2. English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)

  Familiarity information: WEBB used as a noun is rare.

• WEBB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Beatrice Webb; Martha Beatrice Potter Webb; Webb

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Baron Passfield; Sidney James Webb; Sidney Webb; Webb

Instance hypernyms:

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)

Holonyms ("Webb" is a member of...):

Fabian Society (an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism)

 Context examples 

The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

At the Université de Montréal, Étienne Artigau leads a team that will use Webb to study a specific brown dwarf, labeled SIMP0136.

(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)

Webb also will analyze a planet’s temperature and surface pressure – key factors in assessing its habitability.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

Both studies help pave the way for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2019.

(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is following up with atmospheric observations, and the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to probe potential atmospheres in further detail.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)

Additional observations, including from NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, will help to confirm the true nature of 55 Cancri e.

(Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth, NASA)

Next-generation telescopes, such as NASA’s TESS and James Webb Telescopes, will hopefully be able to identify and potentially characterise many more planets that lie within the abiogenesis zone.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

We are just starting to probe the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground-based telescopes, but the authors believe that this will also be a reference exoplanet for future studies with space telescopes such as the James Webb Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Telescope.

(Multiple metals – and possible signs of water – found in unique exoplanet, University of Cambridge)

They found that if phosphine were produced at relatively small amounts equivalent to the amount of methane produced on Earth today, it would produce a signal in the atmosphere that would be clear enough to be detected by an advanced observatory such as the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, if that planet were within 5 parsecs, or about 16 light years from Earth—a sphere of space that covers a multitude of stars, likely hosting rocky planets.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This frontier image provides a sneak peak of the early universe, and gives us a taste of what the James Webb Space Telescope will be capable of seeing in greater detail when it launches in 2018.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)