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name
An English surname transferred from the given name derived from the Norman French given name Hubald.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A township in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
The astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
The Hubble Space Telescope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: space flight
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
A space telescope or spy satellite with a design like the Hubble Space Telescope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: space flight
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, optics, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
An uproar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
A heap, as of work.
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noun
A lump.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Edwin Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble
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Broader terms: astrophysicist
History
From Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French Hubald, from Old High German Hucbalt, Hugbald, from Proto-West Germanic *Hugibald.
After Edwin Hubble, US astronomer.
