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

1 sense of benjamin 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)