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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Hipparchus
died 514 b .c ., tyrant of Athens 527–514.

2. Hipparchus
c190–c125 b .c ., Greek astronomer.

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1. (noun) Hipparchus
Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)

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1. Hipparchus
ancient astronomer, born at Nicæa; flourished in the 2nd century B.C.; discovered among other things the precession of the equinoxes, determined the place of the equinox, and catalogued 1000 fixed stars.

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