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STEVENS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States filmmaker (1905-1975)

Synonyms:

George Stevens; Stevens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States poet (1879-1955)

Synonyms:

Stevens; Wallace Stevens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)

Synonyms:

S. Smith Stevens; Smitty Stevens; Stanley Smith Stevens; Stevens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

psychophysicist (a psychologist trained in psychophysics)

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