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Somerville
[ suhm-er-vil ]
noun
- Mary Fairfax Greig [greg], 1780鈥1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- a town in central New Jersey.
Somerville
/ 藞蝉蕦尘蓹惫瑟濒 /
noun
- SomervilleMary17801872FBritishWRITING: science writer Mary, original name Mary Fairfax . 1780鈥1872, British scientific writer, author of Physical Geography (1848) and other textbooks. Somerville College, Oxford, was named after her
Somerville
- Scottish astronomer and mathematician who wrote expository works on mathematics, physical geography, microscopic science, and astronomy. Her writings explained complex scientific ideas to the general public through simple illustrations and experiments that the average reader could easily understand.
Example Sentences
Plainclothes officers arrested 脰zt眉rk in Somerville, Mass. in March and quickly moved to detention facilities in Vermont and then Louisiana, in a blatant attempt to bring her immigration case in a venue friendly to the Trump administration.
The Scottish government's social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville will outline to Holyrood implications of the ruling and the processes that will follow, including ensuring updated guidance is issued for public bodies on access to single-sex spaces such as female toilets and changing rooms.
Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said ministers were committed to protecting protecting women's and transgender rights.
Somerville reiterated that the Scottish government had "no intention" of bringing the gender recognition reforms back to parliament or seeking to overturn the UK government block on the bill.
Somerville said Scottish ministers would meet with body next week.
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