ALL meanings of galileo
Gal·i·le·o
G g - 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 (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. 0
- 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
- noun galileo (born Galileo Galilei) 1564-1642; It. astronomer, mathematician, & physicist: with the telescope, which he improved, he demonstrated the truth of the Copernican theory: condemned for heresy by the Inquisition 0