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

Pickering: Remember that the other dynamic that will play out postwar is that everyone will be rebuilding their oil inventories.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

"He was very gangly and geeky," recalled Pickering - who had a major musical career of his own with M People and as a DJ, which is recounted in his new book Manchester Must Dance.

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

Ian Hacking, Larry Laudan and Andrew Pickering represent significant examples of people trying to avoid the pitfalls of both realism and relativism; I share that enterprise.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton