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CO-AUTHOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a co-author on (a book, a paper)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "co-author" is one way to...):

author (be the author of)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he co-author his major works over a short period of time?

Credits

 Context examples: 

The current worst-case scenario of sea level rise from Antarctica is based on the idea that cliffs higher than 90 meters would fail catastrophically, said Brent Minchew of MIT, a co-author of the paper.

(Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to ice-sheet instability as much as predicted, National Science Foundation)

"We need tools to process solar data in digestible chunks," said Dan Seaton, an institute scientist and one of the paper's co-authors.

(Detecting solar flares in real time, National Science Foundation)

Models developed by Tajeddine and co-authors from France and Belgium indicate that, if Mimas is hiding a liquid water ocean, it lies 15 to 20 miles (24 to 31 kilometers) beneath the moon's impact-battered surface.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

By controlling this ‘random mutation’ process within the plant we can accelerate this process to generate new phenotypes that we could not even imagine, said Dr Hajk Drost at SLCU, a co-author of the paper.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

Dual and triple black holes are exceedingly rare, said co-author Shobita Satyapal, of George Mason, but such systems are actually a natural consequence of galaxy mergers, which we think is how galaxies grow and evolve.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Co-author of the study and senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Michael McPhaden, tells SciDev.Net: “The MJO contributes to flooding, dry spells, heat waves, severe tropical storms and other extreme weather events in the far reaches of the globe.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

We estimate that between 1.8 and 4.1 billion people in the Global South — with a median of 3.7 billion for 26 degrees Celsius set point threshold and at least five days of annual exposure — are potentially exposed to heat stress in their homes, says Narasimha Rao, co-author of the study and assistant professor of energy systems at Yale University in the United States.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

The weather factors that drive heat waves also contribute to intensified surface ozone and air pollution episodes, said UCI (the University of California, Irvine) professor of Earth system science Michael J. Prather, co-author of the study.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives, said co-author Ryan McKellar, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada in an interview with the BBC.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

Co-author Dale Sandler, Ph.D., chief of the NIEHS Epidemiology Branch, cautioned that although there is some prior evidence to support the association with chemical straighteners, these results need to be replicated in other studies.

(Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)