FULTON

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

1. American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)

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

• FULTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fulton; Robert Fulton

Instance hypernyms:

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

 Context examples 

This places the planet within a recently discovered category called the Fulton gap, or radius gap.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)