COAUTHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coauthor mean? 

• COAUTHOR (noun)
  The noun COAUTHOR has 1 sense:

1. a writer who collaborates with others in writing something

  Familiarity information: COAUTHOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COAUTHOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A writer who collaborates with others in writing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coauthor; joint author

Hypernyms ("coauthor" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

“Our data provide novel evidence for the role of yogurt in the early stage of colorectal cancer development,” said study coauthor Dr. Yin Cao of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

(Eating Yogurt May Lower Risk of Colon Cancer in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Our results suggest that maintaining a regular sleep schedule has beneficial metabolic effects, said study coauthor Susan Redline, M.D., senior physician in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The snow cover is like a shield that can insulate sea ice, said Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, principal investigator for BROMEX and a coauthor of the new study.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

Instead we received a pulse so pristine and sharp that there is no signature of this gas at all, said coauthor Jean-Pierre Macquart, an astronomer at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research at Curtin University, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

When we overlaid the radio and optical images, we could see straight away that the fast radio burst pierced the halo of this coincident foreground galaxy and, for the first time, we had a direct way of investigating the otherwise invisible matter surrounding this galaxy, said coauthor Cherie Day, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)