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Ph.D.

[pee-eych-dee]

abbreviation

plural

Ph.D.s 
  1. the highest degree, a doctorate, awarded by a graduate school in a field of academic study, usually to a person who has completed at least three years of graduate study and a dissertation approved by a committee of professors.

  2. a person who has been awarded this degree.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ph.D.1

First recorded in 1870–75; from Latin Philosophiae Doctor
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The paper was co-authored by Caizhi Zhou and Haitao Qing, both Ph.D. students at NC State; and by Yinding Chi, a former Ph.D. student at NC State who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Penn.

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David Brown said that the parts of ministry his father liked best was counseling, seeing patients, so he went back to Yale and received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1976.

She had earned a Ph.D. in occupational safety and later qualified as an aircraft accident investigator.

The information hunt has become increasingly sophisticated, ushered along by an influx of Ph.D. economists and data scientists to the private sector.

This year, it outperformed models from OpenAI and Google in several advanced tests, including one that asks Ph.D.-level questions about topics ranging from ancient linguistics to gravitational physics.

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