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

2 senses of langley

Sense 1
langley -- (unit of solar radiation)
       => unit of measurement, unit -- (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume")

Sense 2
Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley -- (United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)