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co-inventor

co-inventor

4.1
A person who invents something with other people
  • noun
  • /koʊ ɪnˈvɛntər/
translation icon : co-inventor
  • Steve Jobs was the co-inventor of the iPhone, collaborating with a talented team of engineers.

Examples

  • And as you heard, Vince Serf was the Co inventor of TCPIP and later won the Turing Award for that work.

  • As a co-inventor of the electric car, she played a crucial role in its development alongside others.

  • He worked as a co-inventor on a revolutionary new type of battery with his colleague.

Synonyms

inventor
vsco-inventor
108 3.0

A person who makes a new thing that was not there before

does the same work but always with other people
co-creator
vsco-inventor
3.7

A person who makes something together with other people

focuses on jointly making brand new devices, products, or methods

How Central

principal investigator
  • Specialized
7 7.0
inventor
108 3.0
co-inventor
4.1
contributor
136 3.6

Surface Forms

co-inventor singular
co-inventors plural

Morphology

co-inventor = inventor (transparent) = co + invent + or

The prefix 'co-' straightforwardly indicates joint participation with the base 'inventor'.

Etymology

The word co-inventor is made of co- and inventor; co- means 'with' and invent means 'to make or find something new', as in invention. So a co-inventor is someone who 'makes something new' together with one or more people.