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acoustician
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n 1: a physicist who specializes in acoustics
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competition
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n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain
customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times"
2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or
more contestants [syn: contest, competition]
3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams
were in fierce contention for first place" [syn:
competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation]
4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his
rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
[syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition,
contender]
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cosmetician
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n 1: someone who sells or applies cosmetics
2: someone who works in a beauty parlor [syn: beautician,
cosmetician]
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dentition
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n 1: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn:
teething, dentition, odontiasis]
2: the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively)
in a person or animal [syn: dentition, teeth]
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diagnostician
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n 1: a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis [syn:
diagnostician, pathologist]
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dialectician
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n 1: a logician skilled in dialectic
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dietician
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n 1: a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician,
dietitian, nutritionist]
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mathematician
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n 1: a person skilled in mathematics
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optician
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n 1: a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
[syn: optician, lens maker]
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petition
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n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to
an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation]
2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition,
orison]
v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request
formally and in writing
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phonetician
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n 1: a specialist in phonetics
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politician
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n 1: a leader engaged in civil administration
2: a person active in party politics [syn: politician,
politico, pol, political leader]
3: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in
sly or underhanded ways
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repetition
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n 1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of
yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition]
2: the act of doing or performing again [syn: repetition,
repeating]
3: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a
rhetorical device
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statistician
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n 1: a mathematician who specializes in statistics [syn:
statistician, mathematical statistician]
2: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of
numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to
calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician,
actuary]
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superstition
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n 1: an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear [syn:
superstition, superstitious notion]
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tactician
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n 1: a person who is skilled at planning tactics
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theoretician
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n 1: someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) [syn:
theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser,
idealogue]
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repartition
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tripartition
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