Maury

[ mawr-ee, mor-ee ]

/ ˈmɔr i, ˈmɒr i /

noun

Matthew Fon·taine

[fon-teyn, fon-teyn] /fɒnˈteɪn, ˈfɒn teɪn/, 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.

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Examples from the Web for maury

The high-pressure belt north of these trade winds is a region of calms, which Maury called the calms of Cancer.
Meteorology|Charles Fitzhugh Talman
Miss Maury really has produced nothing finer than this last.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Maury intended to withdraw Liddell during the night of the 9th.
Destruction and Reconstruction:|Richard Taylor
Very many thanks for your two notes, and especially for Maury's map: also for books which you are going to lend me.
More Letters of Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin

There is Maury on the seas, showing the world what a man of science can do.
A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War|Letitia M. Burwell

British Dictionary definitions for maury

Maury

/ (ˈmɔːrɪ) /

noun

Matthew Fontaine. 1806–73, US pioneer hydrographer and oceanographer

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Science definitions for maury

Maury

[ môr′ē ]

Matthew Fontaine 1806-1873

American naval officer and oceanographer who charted the currents and winds of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and wrote the pioneering book Physical Geography of the Sea (1855).