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ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY

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ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY (noun)
  The noun ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY has 1 sense:

1. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)play

  Familiarity information: ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY (noun)


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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