JEAN BERNARD LEON FOUCAULT as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • 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)
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) Jean Bernard Leon Foucault is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower