FEB

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Feb mean? 

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

1. the month following January and preceding March

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following January and preceding March

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Feb; February

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Feb"):

bissextile day; February 29; leap day (the name of the day that is added during a leap year)

Candlemas; Candlemas Day; Feb 2 (feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland)

February 2; Groundhog Day (if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow on this day, there will be 6 more weeks of winter)

February 12; Lincoln's Birthday (the day on which President Abraham Lincoln is remembered)

February 14; Saint Valentine's Day; St Valentine's Day; Valentine's Day; Valentine Day (a day for the exchange of tokens of affection)

February 22; Washington's Birthday (the day on which George Washington is remembered)

Presidents' Day (the third Monday in February; commemorates both presidents Lincoln and Washington)

mid-February (the middle part of February)

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

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

The team observed the three largest particle-ejection events on Jan. 6 and 19, and Feb. 11, and concluded that the events originated from different locations on Bennu's surface.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

On Tuesday, Feb. 28, the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour).

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

The two views of Rhea were taken about an hour-and-a-half apart on Feb. 9, 2015, when Cassini was about 50,000 to 80,000 kilometers away from the moon.

(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)

Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC).

(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)

A team of researchers from Denmark, the United States and Canada made the discovery while studying a solar storm that reached Earth on Feb. 19, 2014.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Clinical features may include pain followed by rapidly progressive neurologic deficits such as extremity weakness, sensory changes, spasticity, and incontinence. (From Innocenzi et al., Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1997 Feb;99(1):1-5)

(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in combination with ground-based telescopes.

(NASA's Kepler Provides Another Peek at Ultra-cool Neighbor, NASA)

Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance - zero - of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years, said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)