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citizen scientists

citizen scientists is the plural of citizen scientist.

Meaning of citizen scientist

Noun

citizen scientist (plural citizen scientists)

  1. An amateur (or nonprofessional) scientist; especially, a person who collects data from the natural world that can be used by scientists.
    • But now the stage is set for the return of the amateur, in a twenty-first century incarnation, as the citizen scientist. The popular spirit is willing. Citizen scientists already comprise the vanguard of a new nature movement, one as focused on […]2012, Janis L. Dickinson, Rick Bonney, Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research, Cornell University Press, →ISBN

Questions about citizen scientists

What is citizen scientists the plural of?
Citizen scientists is the plural of citizen scientist.

Words near citizen scientists in the dictionary

  1. citizen journalists
  2. citizen of the world
  3. citizen science
  4. citizen sciences
  5. citizen scientist
  6. citizen scientists
  7. citizen's arrest
  8. citizen's arrests
  9. citizendom
  10. citizeness
  11. citizenesses

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