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ASTROPHYSICIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("astrophysicist" is a kind of...):

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Instance hyponyms:

Fred Hoyle; Hoyle; Sir Fred Hoyle (an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001))

Edwin Hubble; Edwin Powell Hubble; Hubble (United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953))

Derivation:

astrophysics (the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies)

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