Associations to the word «Herschel»
Noun
- Astronomer
- Nebula
- Telescope
- Slough
- Caroline
- Discoverer
- Greer
- Observatory
- Talbot
- Planck
- Astronomy
- Saturn
- Reflector
- Comet
- Walker
- Brewster
- Faraday
- Prism
- Galaxy
- Thermometer
- Yukon
- Peacock
- Fingerprint
- Catalogue
- Constellation
- William
- Hardin
- Hanover
- Observation
- Crater
- Davy
- Caldwell
- Dunlop
- Cluster
- Ernst
- Clemens
- Darwin
- Photography
- Whaler
- Discovery
- Asteroid
- Negative
- Palma
- Planet
- Forester
- Atkins
- Frederick
- Chloride
- Edmond
- Burke
- Aperture
- Space
- Clint
- Wilhelm
- Newton
- Sir
- Beech
- Gottfried
- Neptune
- Whaling
- Rb
- Hermann
- Galileo
- Diameter
- Buchanan
- Draper
- Jupiter
- Evans
- Eastman
- Perseverance
- Nashville
- Helium
- Heinrich
- Vertex
- Ammonium
- Savage
- Johann
- John
- Magnitude
- Rushing
Adjective
Wiktionary
HERSCHEL, proper noun. (astronomy) (obsolete) The planet Uranus. In use until the mid-19th century as an alternative to Georgium Sidus after King George III.
Dictionary definition
HERSCHEL, noun. English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871).
HERSCHEL, noun. English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822).
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.