Somerville

[ suhm-er-vil ]

/ ˈsʌm ərˌvɪl /

noun

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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Examples from the Web for somerville

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Dr. Bell, of the Somerville Asylum, says that “the autopsies of the insane generally present no lesion of the brain.”
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Mrs Somerville has thought it well to insert a few notes explanatory of some scientific terms.
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Miss Carpenter does not seem to me to have the charm and fascination of Mrs. Somerville.
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British Dictionary definitions for somerville

Somerville

/ (ˈsʌməvɪl) /

noun

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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Science definitions for somerville

Somerville

[ sŭm′ər-vĭl′ ]

Mary Fairfax Greig 1780-1872

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.