Docent is a title at some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks below professor (i.e., professor ordinarius). Docent is also used at some universities generically for a person who has the right to teach. The term is derived from the Latin word docēns, which is the present active participle of docēre (to teach, to lecture).
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