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Lowndean

Lowndean adjective: of or relating to the astronomer Thomas Lowndes, or the academic professorship of astronomy and geometry that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1749.

Adjective

Lowndean (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the astronomer Thomas Lowndes, or the academic professorship of astronomy and geometry that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1749.
    • He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.2009, Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, page 269

Origin of Lowndean

From Lowndes + -an.

Questions about Lowndean

What does Lowndean mean?
Lowndean means of or relating to the astronomer Thomas Lowndes, or the academic professorship of astronomy and geometry that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1749.
What part of speech is Lowndean?
Lowndean is an adjective.

Words near Lowndean in the dictionary

  1. lowminded
  2. lowmindedness
  3. lowmost
  4. lown
  5. Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome
  6. Lowndean
  7. Lowndes
  8. Lowndes County
  9. Lowndeses
  10. Lowndesy
  11. lowne

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