scientist

sci·en·tist | \ ˈsī-ən-tist

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Definition of scientist

1 : a person learned in science and especially natural science : a scientific investigator

2 capitalized : christian scientist

Examples of scientist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While most climate scientists are reluctant to attribute climate change impacts to a specific weather event, all agree climate change exacerbates the conditions in which bushfires occur. — National Geographic, "Traveling to Australia? Here’s what you need to know," 8 Jan. 2020 With a machine taking over a time-intensive and repetitive manual task, the scientists are free to focus on more complicated aspects of their work. — Paul Hudson, Fortune, "Pharma Needs to Stop Chasing Shiny Objects and Start Embracing Practical Technology," 7 Jan. 2020 Many scientists are already hard at work on this issue. — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, "These Are the Biggest Climate Questions for the New Decade," 4 Jan. 2020 If simply left alone, the liquid innards of a cell — its cytoplasm — have a surprising capacity to reassemble, even without components that appeared essential to some scientists. — Quanta Magazine, "Unscrambled Eggs: Self-Organization Restores Cells’ Order," 2 Jan. 2020 But, in the 100 years science has been studying emotion, scientists have never been able to find a specific happiness circuit or a circuit relating to any emotion. — Olly Robinson, Quartz, "Neuroscience discovered what Christmas emotions look like in the brain," 25 Dec. 2019 But scientists are now concerned that even durable denticles have met their match: ocean acidification. — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, "Acidifying Oceans Could Corrode the Tooth-Like Scales on Shark Skin," 21 Dec. 2019 Over the summer, scientists with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency were able to link remains to the Louisville native. — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, "'Welcome home, Uncle Jack': 76 years later, a missing WWII Marine is buried in Louisville," 16 Dec. 2019 What’s more, few scientists have historically been willing to wade into the squishier subject matter of human-wildlife relationships, fearing being dismissed for anthropomorphism, or worse, labeled a quack. — Christopher Keyes, Outside Online, "The Life-Changing Benefits of Animal Encounters," 16 Dec. 2019

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“Scientist.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientist. Accessed 19 January 2020.

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scientist

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English Language Learners Definition of scientist

: a person who is trained in a science and whose job involves doing scientific research or solving scientific problems

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sci·en·tist | \ ˈsī-ən-təst

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Kids Definition of scientist

: a person who studies, specializes in, or investigates a field of science and does scientific work

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Medical Definition of scientist

: a person learned in science and especially natural science : a scientific investigator

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