CONSORTIUM (consortia)

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Irregular inflected form: consortia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does consortium mean? 

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

1. an association of companies for some definite purpose

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSORTIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An association of companies for some definite purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

consortium; pool; syndicate

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

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consortium"):

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust (a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service)

 Context examples 

The consortium's mission is the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

(Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The consortium was first promoted and supported by the NCI's Epidemiology and Genetics Program in 1995.

(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

A grouping of individuals and functions into a single unit that is part of a larger group such as a cooperative group, research network, consortium, etc.

(Member Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

Organizational unit like a laboratory, institute or consortium.

(Organizational Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

In 2003, NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium to catalog these functional elements in the human genome.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

It is a consortium made up of Baylor College of Medicine and its three primary teaching hospital affiliates: Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.

(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving survival and quality of life for cancer patients through standard-setting, prevention, research, education, and the monitoring of comprehensive quality care.

(Commission on Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Each member of the consortium brings a high level of expertise in a specific area to ensure the successful completion of the project.

(Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

This result was obtained from the very first science observations done with ESPRESSO, in September 2018, by the scientific consortium who built the instrument: a team from Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and ESO.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

To draw on the statistical power of larger numbers, a research consortium combined data from all available schizophrenia genetic samples.

(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)