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English noun: Galileo | |||
| 1. | Galileo (person) Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642) | ||
| Synonyms | Galileo Galilei | ||
| Instance hypernym | astronomer, stargazer, uranologist | ||
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