LANGLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Langley mean? 

• LANGLEY (noun)
  The noun LANGLEY has 2 senses:

1. unit of solar radiation

2. United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)

  Familiarity information: LANGLEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANGLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unit of solar radiation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("langley" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Langley; Samuel Pierpoint Langley

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

 Context examples 

This includes a static inlet performance test and a low-speed wind tunnel test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)