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Alfonsines

Alfonsines is the plural of Alfonsine.

Meaning of Alfonsine

Noun

Alfonsine (plural Alfonsines)

  1. One of the scholars who compiled the Alfonsine tables.
    • The oriental observers gave the method of determining the rising of the star, of taking the altitude of the sun, and of drawing the meridian line: they enabled the student to solve all the practical problems of astronomy. In the intellectual genealogy of man they may claim to be the progenitors of...1821 October, “Art[icle] IX.—1. Vox Stellarium, a Loyal Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1821. By Francis Moore, […]. 2. History of Chemistry, prefixed to a Manual of Chemistry, by William Thomas...

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Questions about Alfonsines

What is Alfonsines the plural of?
Alfonsines is the plural of Alfonsine.

Words near Alfonsines in the dictionary

  1. alfoil
  2. Alfonse
  3. Alfonsi
  4. Alfonsian
  5. Alfonsine
  6. Alfonsines
  7. alfonsino
  8. alfonsinos
  9. Alfonso
  10. Alfonso Lista
  11. Alfonso Tabora

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