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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Gal•i•le•o (gal′ə lā′ō, -lē′ō; for 1 also It. gä′lē le′ô),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical(Galileo Galilei), 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
- Aerospacea U.S. space probe designed to take photographs and obtain other scientific information while orbiting the planet Jupiter.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Galileo /ˌɡælɪˈleɪəʊ/ n - full name Galileo Galilei. 1564–1642, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He discovered the isochronism of the pendulum and demonstrated that falling bodies of different weights descend at the same rate. He perfected the refracting telescope, which led to his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, sunspots, and craters on the Earth's moon. He was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support of the Copernican system
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