Somerville
Mary Fairfax Greig [greg], /grɛg/, 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
a town in central New Jersey.
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How to use Somerville in a sentence
In it, Somerville recounts a piece of advice he got from Damon Lindelof, who happens to be the co-creator of famed mystery-box show Lost.
TV’s buzziest shows aren’t trying to trick viewers anymore | Emily VanDerWerff | January 17, 2022 | VoxSomerville shares Inside’s distinctive and lovely aesthetic.
Regional food and water sources may have dwindled when the last Ice Age peaked between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, causing the earliest settlers to leave and delaying further occupations until conditions improved, Somerville speculates.
New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago | Bruce Bower | June 9, 2021 | Science NewsBKB, she said, was undergoing a rapid expansion following the opening of the Somerville location, and she moved to the company’s Denver headquarters after being promoted to a manager role.
For example, Somerville, Massachusetts, relocated voting from a nursing home to a school a little less than a mile away.
Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic | by Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum | August 26, 2020 | ProPublica
They lured Castucci to their headquarters, an office inside Marshall Motors, a garage at 14 Marshall Street in Somerville.
Samuel Putnam, a Massachusetts judge and senator, died at Somerville, aged 85.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellMr. Watson, five miles away in Somerville, promptly answered in the affirmative, and soon was heard a voice singing "America."
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroBut Lionel never heard the question, for he was most busily occupied about Mrs. Somerville and her horse.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) | Charles James Lever"There they go at last," said he, as Lionel and Mrs. Somerville cantered forth, followed by two grooms.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) | Charles James LeverMiss Somerville hovered behind, a paler thing of broken lavender and white and black, with screwed up, sandy-lashed eyes.
Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells
British Dictionary definitions for Somerville
/ (ˈsʌməvɪl) /
Mary, original name Mary Fairfax . 1780–1872, British scientific writer, author of Physical Geography (1848) and other textbooks. Somerville College, Oxford, was named after her
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Scientific definitions for Somerville
[ sŭm′ər-vĭl′ ]
Scottish astronomer and mathematician who wrote expository works on mathematics, physical geography, microscopic science, and astronomy. Her writings explained complex scientific ideas to the general public through simple illustrations and experiments that the average reader could easily understand.
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