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• MOTT (noun)
The noun MOTT has 1 sense:
1. United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
Familiarity information: MOTT used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Lucretia Coffin Mott; Mott
Instance hypernyms:
feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)
suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))
Context examples
For their study, the Cambridge researchers squashed layers of FePS3 together under high pressure (about 10 Gigapascals), they found that it switched between an insulator and conductor, a phenomenon known as a Mott transition.
(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)
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