Halley


Definition: Meaning of, Halley in English to English dictionary.

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  1. 1656-1742 english astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet
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  • Edmond Halley (noun)
    1. 1656-1742 english astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet
  • Edmund Halley (noun)
    1. 1656-1742 english astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet
  • Halley's comet
    1. a COMET (= an object in space like a bright ball with a long tail) that moves around the Sun and passes close to the Earth every 76 years. It was named after the English ASTRONOMER Edmund Halley (1656-1742), and it last appeared close to the Earth in 1986.
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