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DEPARTMENT HEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does department head mean?
• DEPARTMENT HEAD (noun)
The noun DEPARTMENT HEAD has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT HEAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The head of a department
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("department head" is a kind of...):
Context examples
The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.
(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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