Stevens

[ stee-vuhnz ]

noun

1. Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
2. George (Cooper), 1905–75, U.S. film director.
3. John Cox [koks], 1749–1838, and his son Robert Livingston, 1787–1856, U.S. engineers and inventors.
4. John Paul, 1920–2019, U.S. jurist: Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1975–2010.
5. Net·tie Marie [net, -ee], 1861–1912, U.S. cytogeneticist.
6. Thaddeus, 1792–1868, U.S. abolitionist and political leader.
7. Wallace, 1879–1955, U.S. poet.

Stevens

/ ˈstiːvənz /

noun

1. StevensThaddeus17921868MUSPOLITICS: politician Thaddeus (ˈθædɪəs). 1792–1868, US Radical Republican politician. An opponent of slavery, he supported Reconstruction and entered the resolution calling for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
2. StevensWallace18791955MUSWRITING: poet Wallace. 1879–1955, US poet, whose books include the collections Harmonium (1923), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), and Transport to Summer (1947)

Stevens

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1. American biologist who identified the role of X and Y chromosomes in determining the sex of an organism. Stevens studied the chromosomes of mealworm beetles, first establishing that chromosomes are inherited in pairs. She later showed that eggs fertilized by X-carrying sperm produced female offspring, while Y-carrying sperm produced male offspring. She extended this work to studies of sex determination in various plants and insects.

Example Sentences

It's generally estimated that around 10% of pregnant people struggle to meet their nutritional needs -- but the real number could be far higher, according to new research from Stevens Institute of Technology.

From Science Daily

That's the key finding from a new study from researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology, which shows that employees' morale and job performance decline sharply when leaders lurch unpredictably between good and bad behavior.

From Science Daily

However, the Stevens group's system takes a different approach: it detects and processes these noise artifacts using an AI that has been carefully trained to interpret their characteristics as valuable data.

From Science Daily

Stevens said: "We said we would back workers and businesses affected by the transition at Port Talbot and we are doing so with more than £26m announced since July."

From BBC

In 2020, the former high-level Republican strategist Stuart Stevens wrote that by embracing Donald Trump, people who created the modern Republican Party had egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent.

From Salon