galileo

Gal·i·le·o

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [gal-uh-ley-oh, -lee-oh; for 1 also Italian gah-lee-le-aw]
- /ˌgæl əˈleɪ oʊ, -ˈli oʊ; for 1 also Italian ˌgɑ liˈlɛ ɔ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [gal-uh-ley-oh, -lee-oh; for 1 also Italian gah-lee-le-aw]
- /ˌgæl əˈleɪ oʊ, -ˈli oʊ; for 1 also Italian ˌgɑ liˈlɛ ɔ/

Definitions of galileo word

noun galileo (Galileo Galilei) 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer. 1
noun galileo Aerospace. a U.S. space probe designed to take photographs and obtain other scientific information while orbiting the planet Jupiter. 1
noun galileo The CGS unit of acceleration, equal to 1 centimetre per second per second. Symbol: 'Gal'. 1
noun Definition of galileo in Technology ["Galileo: A Strongly Typed Interactive Conceptual Language", A. Albano et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 10(2):230-260 (June 1985)]. 1
noun galileo full name Galileo Galilei. 1564–1642, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He discovered the isochronism of the pendulum and demonstrated that falling bodies of different weights descend at the same rate. He perfected the refracting telescope, which led to his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, sunspots, and craters on the Earth's moon. He was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support of the Copernican system 0
noun galileo a US spacecraft, launched 1989, that entered orbit around Jupiter in late 1995 to study the planet and its major satellites; burned up in the planet's atmosphere in 2003 0

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galileo popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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