astrophysicist (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *astrophysicist*:
NOUN	person	astrophysicist	an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies

astrophysicist > pronunciation
Sounds	ae.strowfih'sihsihst
Rhymes	abortionist ... Zionist: 245 rhymes with ihst...

English > *astrophysicist*: 1 sense > noun 1, person
Meaning	An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies.
Instances	Hoyle, Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle	An English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology
Instances	Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble	United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)
Broader	astronomer, uranologist, stargazer	A physicist who studies astronomy
Spanish	astrofísico
Catalan	astrofísic
Nouns	astrophysics	the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies

HyperDic: astrophysicist