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Definition of 'Foucault' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)

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