geophysicist
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1. a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | geologist, |
| definition | : | a specialist in geology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | seismologist, |
| definition | : | a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andrija mohorovicic, mohorovicic, |
| definition | : | Yugoslav geophysicist for whom the Mohorovicic discontinuity was named (1857-1936) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | alfred lothar wegener, wegener, |
| definition | : | German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john tuzo wilson, wilson, |
| definition | : | Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993) (noun.person) |
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