Definition of "scientists" []

• Plural form of scientist. (noun)

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• "What Lehrer is primarily concerned with is replicability, the term scientists use for repeating an experiment and arriving at the same result."
• "“Autoantibody,” the word scientists use to designate antibodies that have attacked and bound with healthy tissue in error, literally means “antibody against self.”"
• "Last year the International Journal of Obesity published a paper by Gortmaker and Kendrin Sonneville of Children's Hospital Boston noting that "there is a widespread assumption that increasing activity will result in a net reduction in any energy gap" - energy gap being the term scientists use for the difference between the number of calories you use and the number you consume."