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GEOPHYSICIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("geophysicist" is a kind of...):

geologist (a specialist in geology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geophysicist"):

seismologist (a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth)

Instance hyponyms:

Andrija Mohorovicic; Mohorovicic (Yugoslav geophysicist for whom the Mohorovicic discontinuity was named (1857-1936))

Alfred Lothar Wegener; Wegener (German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930))

John Tuzo Wilson; Wilson (Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993))

Derivation:

geophysics (geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth)

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