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COMPUTER SCIENTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers
Classified under:
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))