Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scientist who specializes in physics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A student of physics; a natural philosopher.
- noun In biol, one who seeks to explain fundamental vital phenomena upon purely physical or chemical principles; one who holds that life is a form of energy due simply to molecular movements taking place in the ultimate molecules of the protoplasm, and capable of correlation with the ordinary physical and chemical forces: opposed to vitalist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in physics.
- noun (Biol.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to
vitalist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person whose occupation
specializes in the science ofphysics , especially at a professional level. - noun archaic A
believer in thetheory that thefundamental phenomena oflife are to be explained upon purelychemical andphysical principles (opposed tovitalist ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a scientist trained in physics
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Examples
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I imagine that this résumé permits him to assign himself the title physicist, but not in the Robert Oppenheimer/Edward Teller sense of the word.
June « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008
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I imagine that this résumé permits him to assign himself the title physicist, but not in the Robert Oppenheimer/Edward Teller sense of the word.
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I imagine that this résumé permits him to assign himself the title physicist, but not in the Robert Oppenheimer/Edward Teller sense of the word.
ritter on albright 2008
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Sean M Carroll the physicist is the one who resigned blogging heads.
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But the physicist is at a disadvantage in this respect on account of the very specialized nature of his work, which cannot be made intelligible without an intensive preliminary course of study.
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He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist
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He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist
latimes.com - News 2011
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He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist
latimes.com - News 2011
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He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist
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He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist
gangerh commented on the word physicist
Big-browed physicists tell us that two objects cannot under any circumstances occupy the same place at the same time. . . . .
. . . . a lot of fundamental physics is the solemn statement of the absurdly obvious. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
From 'Odd Thomas' by Dean Koontz.
October 1, 2009