LORENZ

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

1. Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989)

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

• LORENZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Konrad Lorenz; Konrad Zacharias Lorenz; Lorenz

Instance hypernyms:

animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)

 Context examples 

By using basic physical principles to understand the relationship between the atmosphere, raindrop size and rainfall intensity, we have shown that Mars would have seen some pretty big raindrops that would have been able to make more drastic changes to the surface than the earlier fog-like droplets, said Ralph Lorenz of John Hopkins APL.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)