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co-author

co-author is the alternative form of coauthor.

Meaning of coauthor

Noun

coauthor (plural coauthors)

  1. An author who collaborates with another to write something.
    • Following this trail, we treat our sample coauthor network as a causal graph and, using SDP relaxations, rule out latent homophily as a manifestation of prior shared interest leading to the observed patternedness.2016, Peter Wittek, Sándor Darányi, Gustaf Nelhans, “Ruling Out Static Latent Homophily in Citation Networks”, in arXiv

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Forms of co-author

Noun
pluralco-authors
Verb
third-person singular presentco-authors
present participleco-authoring
past participleco-authored
pastco-authored

Origin of co-author

From co- + author.

Questions about co-author

What is co-author the alternative form of?
Co-author is the alternative form of coauthor.

Words near co-author in the dictionary

  1. co-assisted
  2. co-assisting
  3. co-assists
  4. co-aunt
  5. co-aunts
  6. co-author
  7. co-authored
  8. co-authoring
  9. co-authors
  10. co-axial
  11. co-bed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-author (page history and authors); coauthor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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