Galileo

  1. Proper noun.  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.
  2. Noun.  The CGS unit of acceleration, equal to 1 centimetre per second per second. Symbol: '''Gal'''.

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