DALTON as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures
   • gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
   Synonym(s)
   • John Dalton (what does John Dalton mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Dalton is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • chemist (what does chemist mean?)
   • physicist (what does physicist mean?)