theoretician

English

Etymology

From theoretic + -ician.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌθɪə.rəˈtɪʃ.(ə)n/

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Noun

theoretician (plural theoreticians)

1. Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
2. A theorist.
   • 2013 December 10, Ron Cowen, “Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram”, in Nature News‎^[1], retrieved 27 April 2014:

     “They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.

Derived terms

• group theoretician
• number theoretician

Translations

expert in the theory of a science or art

• Bulgarian: теоретик m (teoretik)
• Dutch: theoreticus (nl) m
• Finnish: teoreetikko (fi)
• French: théoricien (fr) m
• Greek: θεωρητικός (el) m (theoritikós)
• Italian: teorico (it), teorizzatore (it) m
• Macedonian: теоретичар m (teoretičar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teoretiker m

  Nynorsk: teoretikar m

• Polish: teoretyk (pl) m
• Swedish: teoretiker (sv) c
• Ukrainian: теоре́тик m (teorétyk)

References

• “theoretician”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• heretication