HIPPARCHUS

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

1. Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)

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

• HIPPARCHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)