1960S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1960s mean? 

• 1960S (noun)
  The noun 1960S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1960 to 1969

  Familiarity information: 1960S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1960S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1960 to 1969

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1960s; sixties

Hypernyms ("1960s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

 Context examples 

In the 1960s, University of Pennsylvania biologist Dan Janzen re-described what has become a classic example of biological mutualism: the relationship between acacia-ants and ant-acacia trees.

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

The paper blamed India’s ‘green revolution’ in the mid-1960s, which focused on cultivation of wheat and rice to meet food security demands, for the decline of the area of coarse cereals.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

The first measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960s, and the incidence dropped, in some cases to almost zero, in parts of the world in which its use became widespread.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Magnetic graphene, or iron trithiohypophosphate (FePS3), is from a family of materials known as van der Waals materials, and was first synthesised in the 1960s.

(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)

LACV is spread by mosquitoes and was first identified in the early 1960s.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

Quaternary ammonium compounds were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s before the standardization of toxicity studies.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dead zones – where oxygen is effectively absent – have quadrupled in extent in the last half-century, and there are also at least 700 areas where oxygen is at dangerously low levels, up from 45 when research was undertaken in the 1960s.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As I write this to you, I am thinking of the old black-and-white 1960s TV show Dragnet and Sargent Joe Friday, whose signature phrase was, Just the facts, ma’am. (According to Google, however, Sargent Friday never said those exact words, but everyone attributes the line to Sargent Friday.) Anyway, if you keep Joe Friday’s words in mind, you will do really well—focus on the facts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Though brown dwarfs were theorized in the 1960s and confirmed in 1995, there is not an accepted explanation of how they form: like a star, by the contraction of gas, or like a planet, by the accretion of material in a protoplanetary disk?

(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)

To examine the correlation between exercise intensity and glaucoma, the researchers looked at data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a large study that has tracked the health and nutritional status of adults in the United States since the 1960s.

(Another Reason to Exercise: Protecting Your Sight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)