AUSTIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Austin mean? 

• AUSTIN (noun)
  The noun AUSTIN has 1 sense:

1. state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas

  Familiarity information: AUSTIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Austin; capital of Texas

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Austin"):

University of Texas (a university in Austin, Texas)

Holonyms ("Austin" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

Technology is being developed in Austin, Texas, to make cancer detection faster and tumor removal more precise.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

A team at the University of Texas at Austin has been using worms to study disorders related to the nervous system.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed new guidelines for fabricating nanoscale gel materials, or nanogels, that can deliver therapeutic remedies to treat cancer in a precise manner.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

Get away, Austin, we don't want you here.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may have found a way for people to get better shuteye.

(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But new research, led by The University of Texas at Austin and the University of South Florida (USF), found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be as stable as it seems.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach, even if it is off, according to findings from a new study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

(Presence of Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it’s possible to achieve photon up-conversion, the emission of higher energy light, when using carefully designed structures containing silicon nanocrystals and specialized organic molecules.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)

Now, a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has confirmed it by finding hard evidence in the hundreds of feet of rocks that filled the impact crater within the first 24 hours after impact.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

But research conducted by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues has found that while low oxygen environments set the stage, it takes a breath of air to catalyze the fossilization process.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)