ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("associate professor" is a kind of...):

prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Some of the quartz sand coming from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact; this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater, said associate professor Nicolaj Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the authors of the study..

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)