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

1 sense of sperry

Sense 1
Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry -- (United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
       INSTANCE OF=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist -- (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)