GEOPHYSICIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geophysicist mean? 

• GEOPHYSICIST (noun)
  The noun GEOPHYSICIST has 1 sense:

1. a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth

  Familiarity information: GEOPHYSICIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOPHYSICIST (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)

 Context examples 

New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth that was first proposed by a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysicist at Rice University in Houston, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)