peirce

Noun peirce has 2 senses

• peirce(n = noun.person) benjamin peirce - United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880);
is a kind of astronomer, stargazer, uranologist, mathematician

• peirce(n = noun.person) charles peirce, charles sanders peirce - United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914);
is a kind of logician, logistician, philosopher