MAGELLAN

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

1. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

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

• MAGELLAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ferdinand Magellan; Fernao Magalhaes; Magellan

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

 Context examples 

To do so, he built on his experience working with radar images on NASA's Magellan Venus orbiter and from a previous regional geologic map of Titan that he developed.

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)