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

1 sense of hipparchus

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Hipparchus -- (Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)