licentiate
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li·cen·ti·ate
/ līˈsensh(ē)it/
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n.
the holder of a certificate of competence to practice a certain profession.
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(in certain universities, esp. in Europe) a degree between that of bachelor and master or doctor.
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the holder of such a degree.
DERIVATIVES:
li·cen·ti·ate·ship
/ -ˌship/ n.
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News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/28/2006; ; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/1/2006; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/14/2006; 535 words
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A heavenly day at McDonald Observatory
Magazine article from: Southern Living; 6/1/1997; ; 691 words
; ...peers into the eyepiece of one of McDonald Observatory's telescopes, a 16-inch...Locke. Starting near the dome of McDonald's 82-inch telescope, she...skies. Dianne Young PARTY TIME! McDonald Observatory, 17 miles north...
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN MCDONALD OBSERVATORY HOLDS OPEN HOUSE MAY 12
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/12/2007; 497 words
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY CONFERS TOP HONOR ON MCDONALD OBSERVATORY DIRECTOR DAVID LAMBERT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/5/2007; 568 words
; ...of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory, has been...the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany...Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories. He has been director of McDonald Observatory since 2003.Contact...
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Magazine article from: American Scholar; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
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World's Largest Segmented Mirror Built by Kodak for New Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory.
Business Wire; 12/8/1997; 700+ words
; ...completion of spare mirror segment fabrication is expected early in 1998. The Hobby-Eberly telescope is located at McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of far West Texas and is being commissioned by five universities. "The Hobby-Eberly...
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U. Texas-area observatory scouting locations for telescope
News Wire article from: University Wire; 6/16/2006; ; 399 words
; ...possible location for an upcoming addition to the McDonald Observatory. The McDonald Observatory serves as a research facility for...world's third-largest optical telescope. The McDonald Observatory was paid for by a line item in the...
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Fort Davis, Texas, Wishes on Stars to Save Area Observatory from Budget Cuts.
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; ...Texas--When the McDonald Observatory's funding...restored funding to the observatory in the House appropriations...next two years. The observatory can survive those...the biggest and best observatories in the world. There...improvements at the observatory. The tough times...chairman ...
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McDonald Observatory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
McDonald Observatory The observatory of the University of Texas...1932 and is named after William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), a banker who...http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html
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Struve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...director (1817-39) of Dorpat Observatory he wrote Stellarum Duplicum...director of the new Pulkovo Observatory and was one of the first...1862-89) of the Pulkovo Observatory. He discovered about 500...Yerkes Observatory and of McDonald Observatory (of the universities...
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Plaskett, John Stanley
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...staff of the new Dominion Observatory in Ottawa. He worked with...staffs of many American observatories, he designed a new spectrograph...the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia...two-inch mirror for the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas...
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Monitoring Network of Telescopes
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...MONET/North, opened in 2006, is located at McDonald Observatory , Texas, and MONET/South, due to open in 2007, is at the South African Astronomical Observatory . http://monet.uni-goettingen.de/
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Hobby–Eberly Telescope
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...on Mount Fowlkes, Texas, opened in 1997. It is part of McDonald Observatory , and is jointly owned by the University of Texas, Pennsylvania...Pennsylvania respectively. http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/het.html
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