Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun james_watt

1 sense of james watt

Sense 1
Watt, James Watt -- (Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819))
       INSTANCE OF=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist -- (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)