sir william huggins

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   English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)

   SynonymsHuggins

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What does sir william huggins mean?

sir william huggins means "English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)".

What is another word for sir william huggins?

Close synonyms include Huggins. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sir william huggins a common word?

sir william huggins 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.