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STEVENS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States filmmaker (1905-1975)
Synonyms:
George Stevens; Stevens
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States poet (1879-1955)
Synonyms:
Stevens; Wallace Stevens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973)
Synonyms:
S. Smith Stevens; Smitty Stevens; Stanley Smith Stevens; Stevens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
psychophysicist (a psychologist trained in psychophysics)
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