Ph.D.
Americanabbreviation
plural
Ph.D.s-
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.
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a person who has been awarded this degree.
Etymology
Origin of Ph.D.
First recorded in 1870–75; from Latin Philosophiae Doctor
Example Sentences
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George had a degree in engineering and a Ph.D. in business, and he became an expert on global infrastructure projects.
"Ants are everywhere," said lead author Arthur Matte, a Ph.D. student in zoology at the University of Cambridge.
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Notti earned his Ph.D. in structural microbiology at Rockefeller before moving into oncology, and he suggested to Walz that they investigate this unanswered question together.
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"These are things that people have some level of control over," said Jared Tanner, Ph.D., a research associate professor of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida and one of the study's leaders.
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Praveen Nair, 25, from the Bay Area, said the vigil also marked his first experience with snow on Brown’s campus since enrolling in the school’s computer science Ph.D. program this fall.
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