m fairfax greig somerville

noun

Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] , 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.

a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

a town in central New Jersey.

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Somerville (ˈsʌməvɪl)

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	Mary, original name Mary Fairfax. 1780--1872, British scientific writer, author of Physical Geography (1848) and other textbooks. Somerville College, Oxford, was named after her

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Somerville

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Scottish astronomer and mathematician who wrote expository works on mathematics, physical geography, microscopic science, and astronomy. Her writings explained complex scientific ideas to the general public through simple illustrations and experiments that the average reader could easily understand.

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