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/ˌɡæɫəˈɫiən/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to Galileo or his works
- of or relating to Galilee or its inhabitants
NOUN
- one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo
- an inhabitant of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ)
How To Use Galilean In A Sentence
- They were nevertheless moderns in natural philosophy who accepted post-Galilean science, and propounded an atomistic theory of matter.
- The refractive optics that form the reduced image of the scene in the reverse-Galilean viewfinder are identical to those of the Albada viewfinder.
- The Medicean Stars, now known as the Galilean Moons, they will shuttle backwards and forwards during the nights as you watch. Geo-xcentricities; you too can be Galileo with just a pair of binoculars (and gaffer tape) - The Panda's Thumb
- The lure of the three frigid Galilean moons is that beneath their thick crust of ice may lie vast reservoirs of liquid water that harbor, or once harbored, life.
- The lure of the three frigid Galilean moons is that beneath their thick crust of ice may lie vast reservoirs of liquid water that harbor, or once harbored, life.
- We have considered the Moon and planets crossing the Sun or the stars, Jupiter eclipsing the Galilean satellites, and measuring the sizes of asteroids and comets.
- A generalized Galilean transformation deserves more investigation.
- Philosophical debates over idealization have focused on two general kinds of idealizations: so-called Aristotelian and Galilean idealizations. Models in Science
- Most of the work in quantum mechanics was in the Galilean (or non-relativistic) approximation.
- Today this is sometimes called Galilean relativity. Euclid’s Window