CAMPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does campus mean? 

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

1. a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field on which the buildings of a university are situated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("campus" is a kind of...):

field (a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed)

Meronyms (parts of "campus"):

student union (a building on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body)

 Context examples 

The office that oversees research efforts which take place on the NIH campus.

(Intramural Research Program, NCI Thesaurus)

An organizational unit in the Center for Cancer Research of the NCI, but is physically located in the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, adjacent to the NIH campus.

(NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

Research that takes place on the NCI campus.

(Intramural Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Research activities which take place off the NIH campus.

(Extramural Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers tracked the eye movements of 42 participants as they undertook everyday tasks around a university campus, and subsequently assessed their personality traits using well-established questionnaires.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Launched in 2012 aboard an Atlas V rocket, CSSWE involved more than 65 students and was operated for more than two years from a ground station on the roof of a building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)

The Center accelerates the development of anticancer agents by integrating basic, translational, and clinical research on the University of Texas campus and attracts patients from the community and beyond to join Phase I, II, and III studies.

(Cancer Therapy and Research Center, NCI Thesaurus)