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maven | x |

As a proper noun maven

is (nasa|space) a space probe designed to investigate the martian climate.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

maven

English

(wikipedia maven)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) An expert in a given field.
  • Pam is a coffee maven ; she knows so much about coffee.
  • * 2002 , Joseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett, The Guru Guide to Marketing , page 207,
  • Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens' know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says Gladwell, need ' mavens to tell them what to buzz about.
  • * 2006 January 23, Virginia Robbins, Opinion: Eight Steps to Leadership'', '' , page 19,
  • Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven', someone within the company who understands the new technology. A '''maven''', as defined in Malcolm Gladwell?s ''The Tipping Point'', is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the ' maven might be outside of IT.
  • * 2010 , Rachel Davis Mersey, Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News , page 118,
  • The goal for any media company is to be a maven —and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.

    Derived terms

    * media maven

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----