hipparchus

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   Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)

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Other forms of hipparchus

plural

hipparchuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hipparchus

What does hipparchus mean?

hipparchus means "Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)".

How many syllables are in hipparchus?

hipparchus has 3 syllables: hip-par-chus. The stress falls on "hip".

Is hipparchus a common word?

hipparchus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.