lowndeanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Lowndes +‎ -an

形容詞

Lowndean ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the astronomer Thomas Lowndes, or the academic professorship of astronomy and geometry that he founded at the University of Cambridge in 1749.
   • 2009, Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy^[1], page 269:

     He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.