Definition of "visiting professor" []

• A professor on leave who is invited to serve as a member of the faculty of another college or university for a limited period of time, often an academic year. (noun)

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• "Through the good e-offices of William O. Goggins, deputy editor of Wired magazine, I tracked down Ted Nelson, the coiner of hypertext, now a visiting professor at the University of Southampton in Britain."
• ""Apparently he was a visiting professor from UC San Diego.""
• "“Tinseltown, with its reference to the silver screen and the glamour surrounding it, is at least mildly positive,” says Arnold Zwicky, visiting professor of linguistics at Stanford."