COPENHAGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Copenhagen mean? 

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

1. the capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPENHAGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Copenhagen; Danish capital; Kobenhavn

Context example:

Copenhagen is sometimes called the Paris of the North

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

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

Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)

 Context examples 

Hans Bisgaard of COPSAC at the Copenhagen University Hospital said, "This study proves that they are definitively and significantly related."

(Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Asthma Risk in Children by One-Third, VOA)

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed.

(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, 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)

The group, led by researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark worked for the past three years to verify their discovery, which they initially made in 2015 using NASA data.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The study conducted by The Heart Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark, investigated whether poor social network was associated with worse outcomes in 13,463 patients with ischaemic heart disease, arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm), heart failure, or heart valve disease.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By reanalysing the 2017 data from the merger, we have now identified the signature of one heavy element in this fireball, strontium, proving that the collision of neutron stars creates this element in the Universe, says the study’s lead author Darach Watson from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

Dr Victor Moreno-Mayar, from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen and first author of the study, said: We discovered the Australasian signal was absent in Native Americans prior to the Spirit Cave and Lagoa Santa population split which means groups carrying this genetic signal were either already present in South America when Native Americans reached the region, or Australasian groups arrived later.

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

The new research, led by a group of academics at the Center for Pathogen Evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge and the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, took genetic samples from skeletons across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, and found 25 HBV-positive skeletons amongst the remains.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from University of Copenhagen—in collaboration with researchers from University of California, Irvine—have learned that the effect of exercise may differ depending on the time of day it is performed.

(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)