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PHOSITA

PHOSITA is the abbreviation of person having ordinary skill in the art.

Meaning of person having ordinary skill in the art

Noun

person having ordinary skill in the art (plural persons having ordinary skill in the art or people having ordinary skill in the art)

  1. (UK) A hypothetical person having the normal skills and knowledge in a particular technical field (an "art"), without being a genius; used in a legal test related to patents.
    Synonyms:
    PHOSITA

Forms of PHOSITA

pluralPHOSITAs

Questions about PHOSITA

What is PHOSITA the abbreviation of?
PHOSITA is the abbreviation of person having ordinary skill in the art.

Words near PHOSITA in the dictionary

  1. phosgenes
  2. phosgenic
  3. phosgenite
  4. phosichthyid
  5. phosichthyids
  6. PHOSITA
  7. PHOSITAs
  8. phosmet
  9. phosph-
  10. phospha-
  11. phosphaadamantane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PHOSITA (page history and authors); person having ordinary skill in the art (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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