galilean
IPA: gæɫʌɫˈiʌn
Root Word: Galilean
noun
- A native or resident of Galilee.
- (historical) A zealous follower of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.
- (by extension, sometimes derogatory) A Christian.
- Jesus Christ.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Galilee, or a native or inhabitant thereof.
- (philosophy) Of or pertaining to the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei.
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Examples of "galilean" in Sentences
- Central extension of the Galilean group.
- Galilean transformation formula for fields.
- Representation theory of the Galilean group.
- Consider the Galilean pre relativity analog.
- Galilean relativity is enough to ensure that.
- There is an analogy to a Galilean thermometer.
- Callisto is the outermost of the Galilean satellites.
- Io is the closest of the Galilean satellites to Jupiter.
- Galilean invariance or the principle of Newtonian relativity.
- The Galilean thermometer works due to the principle of buoyancy.
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