1990S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1990s mean? 

• 1990S (noun)
  The noun 1990S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1990 to 1999

  Familiarity information: 1990S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1990S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1990 to 1999

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1990s; nineties

Hypernyms ("1990s" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

The preserved remains of the man in his forties were initially believed to be between 1,500 and 2000 years old but during the 1990s new textile and hair testing dated the skeleton at 10,600 years old.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material, which were later confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

Lebreton said the trash in the patch, discovered in the early 1990s, comes from countries around the Pacific Rim, including nations in Asia as well as North and South America.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

Hubble found two dark storms that appeared in the mid-1990s and then vanished.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

The Thwaites already drains an area roughly the size of the state of Florida, accounting for about 4 percent of global sea level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.

(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)

In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission flew by Ganymede, confirming the moon's ocean, and showing it extends to depths of hundreds of miles.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

In the 1990s, however, researchers were able to piece together climate records for the period of the Maya collapse and found that it correlated with an extended period of extreme drought.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)

This rebound swamped the acceleration caused by the warming climate and made the rate of sea level rise higher in the mid- and late 1990s than it otherwise would have been.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

First identified in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1990s, TR4 has since spread to Africa and now threatens the vast banana plantations of Latin America.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Decades ago, in the late 1990s, a strain of meningitis B was reaching epidemic proportions in New Zealand.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)