STEVENS

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• STEVENS (noun)
  The noun STEVENS has 3 senses:

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

2. United States poet (1879-1955)

3. United States filmmaker (1905-1975)

  Familiarity information: STEVENS used as a noun is uncommon.

• STEVENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

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

Instance hypernyms:

psychophysicist (a psychologist trained in psychophysics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States poet (1879-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Stevens; Wallace Stevens

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States filmmaker (1905-1975)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Stevens; Stevens

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

You remember that terrible murderer, Bert Stevens, who wanted us to get him off in ’87?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There's one fellow—Stevens—a theosophist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Part of the Shingopana skeleton was excavated in 2002 by scientists affiliated with the Rukwa Rift Basin Project, an international effort led by Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers Patrick O'Connor and Nancy Stevens.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

"There's Norton and Hamilton; come on and meet them. Stevens isn't around, I hear. I'm going to get them started on monism if I can. Wait till they get a few jolts in them and they'll warm up."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)