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English noun: Oort

1. Oort (person) Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)


SynonymsJan Hendrix Oort


Instance hypernymastronomer, stargazer, uranologist









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