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prof
1 American
[prof]
/ prɒf /
noun
Informal.
Prof.
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Prof.
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British
abbreviation
prof
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/ prɒf /
noun
Etymology
Origin of prof
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; by shortening
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Arie Haagen-Smit, the Caltech smog prof, imagined in the 1950s that clean-running cars were imminent, “exhaust devices, catalytic devices … and maybe we start putting them in the cars in 1962 and maybe 1965.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
A collaborative team of researchers led by prof.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
But that may be too complicated a message for a movie in which even the smart one — ex-MIT prof Betty — triumphs not with her brain but with her stomach.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2023
"Unless China decarbonises, we're not going to beat climate change," says prof David Tyfield of the Lancaster Environment Centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2021
Then prof Nemur said remembir he will be the first human beeing ever to have his intelijence increesd by sergery.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Former University of Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday was found dead on Friday, according to his family and the university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The team also collaborated with Prof. Chris de Kock from the Free University, Amsterdam.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The clock demurs, making a long, ornamented speech about how the other clocks would think him “too grand” if he became Prof. Ticky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to Prof. Schmidt, the new theory provides a versatile way to describe quantum impurities across different spatial dimensions and a wide variety of interactions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I’m sure Prof. Ezeka will be able to explain it, some sort of migratory behavior. Don’t shut the window so you don’t trap them in.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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