COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computer scientist mean? 

• COMPUTER SCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun COMPUTER SCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers

  Familiarity information: COMPUTER SCIENTIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTER SCIENTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("computer scientist" is a kind of...):

computer user (a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business)

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

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

computational linguist (someone trained in computer science and linguistics who uses computers for natural language processing)

Instance hyponyms:

Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates (United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955))

 Context examples 

Marcus Hughes, a computer scientist at CU Boulder and lead author of the study, created a computer algorithm that can look at all the Solar Ultraviolet Imager images simultaneously and spot patterns in the data.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)