Crossword clues for maven
maven
- Staff outside see European and American expert
- Players welcoming a very dab hand
- Reliable expert
- Someone who is highly skilled
- Font of knowledge
- Expert, informally
- Expert, so to speak
- Expert, as in fashion
- Expert in everyday matters
- Master or expert
- Knowledgeable person
- Expert, as in policy
- Ace in a field
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1965, from Yiddish meyvn, from Hebrew mebhin, literally "one who understands." Plural is mayvinim.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly US English) An expert in a given field.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Maven is the current best known artificial intelligence Scrabble player, created by Brian Sheppard. It has been used in official licensed Hasbro Scrabble games, and the downloadable Funkitron Scrabble.
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN) is a space probe developed by NASA designed to study the Martian atmosphere while orbiting Mars. Mission goals include determining how the planet's atmosphere and water, presumed to have once been substantial, were lost over time.
MAVEN was successfully launched aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle at the beginning of the first launch window on November 18, 2013. Following the first engine burn of the Centaur second stage, the vehicle coasted in low Earth orbit for 27 minutes before a second Centaur burn of five minutes to insert it into a heliocentric Mars transit orbit.
On September 22, 2014, MAVEN reached Mars and was inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit by above the planet's surface. The principal investigator for the spacecraft is Bruce Jakosky of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
On 5 November 2015, NASA announced that data from MAVEN shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms. That loss of atmosphere to space likely played a key role in Mars' gradual shift from its carbon dioxide-dominated atmosphere - which had kept Mars relatively warm and allowed the planet to support liquid surface water - to the cold, arid planet we see today. This shift took place between about 4.2 to 3.7 billion years ago.
A maven is an expert in a particular field.
Maven or MAVEN may also refer to:
- MAVEN, an orbiter mission to Mars
- Apache Maven, a software tool for project management and automated builds
- Mitsubishi Maven, a minivan sold in Indonesia since 2005
- Maven Networks, a multimedia company
- Maven (Scrabble), a Scrabble-playing algorithm
- Maven (car sharing), a carsharing service of General Motors
Maven is a carsharing service announced by General Motors in January 2016. The program combines the company’s initiatives in car-sharing services, with employees from the car technology industry, along with Google, Zipcar and Sidecar employees.
Usage examples of "maven".
Neidorf was not a UNIX maven, and simply lacked the necessary skill and ability to break into computers.
In the next instant Maven was charging up the steps, followed by a horde of Homicides.
In a red-misted daze he heard Maven babble for mercy and then scream piteously, like a woman.
Unfortunately the new maven of decorum, Miss Manners, has written virtually nothing about what is proper behavior at a crime scene.
FBI Agent Mavens, the man who might have found the truth in the first place, in the old pre-WormCam days.
The Deadhead community boasts any number of recording engineers, lighting experts, rock video mavens, electronic technicians of all descriptions.
Treated with gingerly respect by Barlow and other Well mavens, Phiber Optik swiftly became a Well celebrity.
The Agency remained mysterious even in action, which kept the media mavens abuzz but information-starved.
Poor Fred, sufficient to inspire pilgrimages to these hinterlands by culture mavens from all over the 2 GENEROUS DEATH world.
She well knew that government civilians took these things much more seriously, and she sensed that the NIS headquarters mavens were circling the wagons over this one.
CNN this morning, I guess all you art mavens will be calling in with useless information.
Nell and I are hardly mavens of medieval church architecture, but we find this one surprisingly light and suffused with an unexpected warmth.
The Deadhead community boasts any number of recording engineers, lighting experts, rock video mavens, electronic technicians of all descriptions.
Treated with gingerly respect by Barlow and other Well mavens, Phiber Optik swiftly became a Well celebrity.
She well knew that government civilians took these things much more seriously, and she sensed that the NIS headquarters mavens were circling the wagons over this one.