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ASTROPHYSICIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
Classified under:
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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