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

2 senses of peirce

Sense 1
Peirce, Benjamin Peirce -- (United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 2
Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce -- (United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914))
       INSTANCE OF=> philosopher -- (a specialist in philosophy)
       INSTANCE OF=> logician, logistician -- (a person skilled at symbolic logic)