Definition of Halley

1. Noun. English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742).

Exact synonyms: Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley
Generic synonyms: Astronomer, Stargazer, Uranologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halley

Haller's insula
Haller's line
Haller's plexus
Haller's rete
Haller's tripod
Haller's tunica vasculosa
Haller's unguis
Haller's vas aberrans
Haller's vascular tissue
Haller cell
Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome
Hallervorden syndrome
Hallewell
Halley
Halley's Comet
Hallgren syndrome
Hallie
Hallmark holiday
Hallmark moment
Hallmark moments
Hallmarkish
Hallmarky
Hallopeau's disease
Hallowe'en
Hallowe'eny
Halloween
Halloweener

Literary usage of Halley

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

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"His father, Edmund halley, a member of agood Derbyshire family, ... On his return to England in October 1678 halley presented to the king a planisphere of ..."

2. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"halley : PREDICTION OF COMETS. — In applying Newton's theories to known comets his friend and disciple halley made the astonishing discovery that some of ..."

3. Terrestrial Magnetism by Louis Agricola Bauer (1899)
"IN Nature, of May 23, 1895, tne writer made known the finding of a halley ... And yet halley actu- 'The copy in Le Monnier.s Loix du ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"Memoirs of the late James halley,"AB, Student of Theology. ... halley was of this last mentioned number. He had the industry of a man sensible of his ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"A. halley. 1. Apollonius shewed how to draw the normals to a conic from a given point by means of a rectangular hyperbola. This cuts the conic in four or ..."

6. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1908)
"An account of the known history of the halley family appeared in The Genealogist, ... The inedited lists and abstracts of halley or Hawley wills and ..."

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