HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Harvard University mean? 

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

1. a university in Massachusetts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARVARD UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Massachusetts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Harvard; Harvard 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 ("Harvard University" is a part of...):

Cambridge (a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Holonyms ("Harvard 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 

Scientists from Harvard University believe this would have allowed water to exist on the planet, and thus it is possible life could have thrived.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Earlier studies by Harvard University researcher Sam Myers and colleagues showed that wheat, maize, rice, field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had lower levels of protein and minerals.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

A team led by Dr. Douglas Melton at Harvard University set out to transform stem cells into beta cells that could replace damaged beta cells.

(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)

Researchers from Harvard University recruited 24 students who slept with air-conditioning and 20 who slept in rooms without AC before, during and after a Boston-area heat wave.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Researchers at Harvard University in Massachusetts have discovered a brain structure, called the amygdala, is more active in people who suffer from chronic stress.

(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)

According to scientists at Harvard University, advances in research of xenotransplantation, or transplantation of animal organs to humans, promises to bridge the huge gap between the number of human organs available for transplants and the number of patients on waiting lists.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

A research team led by Dr. Praveen Arany of NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and Dr. David Mooney at Harvard University set out to investigate whether LPL can induce stem cells to regenerate components in teeth.

(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)

A pioneering international study, carried out by the University of Granada, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Florida, Laval University and the Jackson Laboratory has conducted an in-depth analysis of the molecular differences between the most common symptoms associated with neuropathic pain.

(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)

To better understand this outbreak, an international team led by Dr. Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute and Harvard University collected virus samples from 78 patients living in Sierra Leone near the origin of the 2014 outbreak.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

A new study by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Harvard University may help settle a long-standing question: how do small amounts of organic carbon become locked away in rock and sediment, preventing it from decomposing?

(Carbon hides in sediment, keeping oxygen in atmosphere, National Science Foundation)