Definition of Galton

1. Noun. English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911).

Exact synonyms: Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton
Generic synonyms: Scientist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galton

Gallo-Romans
Gallomania
Gallophilia
Gallophilias
Gallophone
Galloway
Gallup
Gallup poll
Gallup polls
Gallus
Gallus gallus
Galo
Galois
Galois theory
Galsworthy
Galton
Galton's delta
Galton's law
Galtonia candicans
Galtonian-Fisher genetics
Galvani
Galveston
Galveston Bay
Galveston Island
Galway
Galway Bay
Galway hooker
Galway hookers
Galwegian

Literary usage of Galton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Mr. galton first took up the subject of the transmissibility of ... Mr. galton argued that, as it is practicable to produce a highly gifted race of men by ..."

2. Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to by Gerald Sweeney (2001)
"Certainly it should be stressed at the outset that they seem to have seen galton as sincere in his claims that mankind could be much improved through ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"Having often had disagreeable experience of the inadequacy of maps in these respects, Mr. galton conceived the idea of testing the effect of stereographs, ..."

4. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and by John Burke (1838)
"galton, HUBERT-JOHN-BARCLAY, esq. of Warley Hall, in the county of ... galton, JOHN-HOWARD, esq. of Hadzor House, in the county of Worcester, b. ..."

5. The Elements of Statistical Method by Willford Isbell King (1912)
"practice it cannot be well used, so that other and better methods have been devised, the best of these being the galton graph devised by Professor Francis ..."

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