COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Columbia University mean? 

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (noun)
  The noun COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has 1 sense:

1. a university in New York City

  Familiarity information: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in New York City

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Columbia; Columbia University

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Columbia University" is a part of...):

Greater New York; New York; New York City (the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center)

Holonyms ("Columbia University" is a member of...):

Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)

 Context examples 

A previous study from Columbia University found that B vitamins may also play a role in lowering the negative impact of air pollution.

(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1926) at Columbia University by crossing an inbred August rat with an inbred Copenhagen rat, to Heston (1945) and then to the NIH in 1950.

(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1920) at Columbia University and disseminated to Heston (1949) and then to the NIH (1951).

(F344, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center is Columbia University's organizational component for the conduct of basic, clinical, and population-based cancer research and patient care.

(Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A new paper by researchers at the Earth Institute at Columbia University offers fresh insights into the forces causing the world's largest ice shelf to melt.

(Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer, National Science Foundation)

An international team led by scientists at Columbia University set out to determine whether the fine particles in air pollution may alter DNA methylation in CD4+ T-helper cells, a type of circulating white blood cell involved in the inflammatory response.

(Combatting epigenetic effects from outdoor air pollution, NIH)

Researchers from Columbia University, New York City, are now able to use induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to form a model of human adult-like cardiac muscle by introducing electric and mechanical stimulation at an early stage.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

To understand El Niño’s impact on crops, the team from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University in the United States analysed earlier climate models of El Niño and compared this with data on crop harvests.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

A research team led by David Sulzer, Ph.D., professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York City and Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci., professor of infectious diseases at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California, examined the role of T cells in Parkinson’s disease (PD).

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

In this study, Guillermo Horga, M.D., Ph.D. of Columbia University, New York, and colleagues conducted a series of validation studies to show that NM-MRI can serve as a marker of dopamine function in individuals without neurodegenerative disorders.

(Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI identified as a potential biomarker for psychosis, National Institutes of Health)