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geophysicist

noun

Etymology

From geo- + physicist.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻
  2. derived from φυσική
  3. derived from physica
  4. derived from fisike
  5. derived from phisik
  6. suffixed as physicist — “physics + ist”
  7. formed as geophysicist — “geo- + physicist”

Definitions

  1. A physicist who specializes in geophysics.

    • Yevgeny K. Fedorov, one of the Soviet Union's leading geophysicists, died Wednesday, Tass, the official press agency, reported today. He was 71 years old.
    • “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.

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