principal investigator
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
lead researcher on a grant-funded project
Example Sentences
- "„"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto — the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s."“"