Pickering

American  

[pik-er-ing, pik-ring] / ˈpɪk ər ɪŋ, ˈpɪk rɪŋ /

noun

1. Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.

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Pickering British  

/ ˈpɪkərɪŋ /

noun

1. Edward Charles. 1846–1919, US astronomer, who invented the meridian photometer

2. his brother, William Henry. 1858–1938, US astronomer, who discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn, and predicted (1919) the existence and position of Pluto

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Pickering Scientific  

/ pĭk′ər-ĭng /

1. American astronomer who made many innovations in the equipment used to observe and measure the distance of stars. In 1884 he published the first catalog of stellar magnitudes. His brother William Henry Pickering (1858–1938) discovered Phoebe, the ninth moon of Saturn (1899), and predicted the existence of Pluto (1919).

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Example Sentences

Pickering: I understand what Seth is saying, but those shifts feel like they will happen over longer periods of time, not as soon as 2027 or ’28.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Mike Pickering was fed up with listening to "absolute turgid indie bands playing rubbish music" when he stumbled across a sound that excited him.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

“Government bonds are rallying as inflation worries fade and markets begin to abandon bets on further central bank rate hikes,” said Kallum Pickering, chief economist at Peel Hunt.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Dan Pickering, chief investment officer of Pickering Energy Partners, puts it this way: “The more visible energy gets, the riskier an underweight position gets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Wolcott was one of only three high-ranking officials of the federal government within a day’s ride of Philadelphia, Attorney General Edmund Randolph and Postmaster General Timothy Pickering being the others.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy