JAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jan mean? 

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

1. the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Jan; January

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Jan"):

Inauguration Day; January 20 (the day designated for inauguration of the United States President)

January 1; New Year's; New Year's Day (the first day of the year)

Martin Luther King Day; Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed on the Monday closest to January 15)

Tet (the New Year in Vietnam; observed for three days after the first full moon after January 20th)

January 20; Saint Agnes's Eve (a Christian holy day)

January 1; Solemnity of Mary ((Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation)

Epiphany; Epiphany of Our Lord; January 6; Three Kings' Day; Twelfth day (twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus)

Twelfth night (eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5)

Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)

mid-January (the middle part of January)

Holonyms ("Jan" 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 

Shortly after the discovery of the particle plumes on Jan. 6, the mission science team increased the frequency of observations, and subsequently detected additional particle plumes during the following two months.

(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)

Comet P/2016 BA14 was discovered on Jan. 22.

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

It was Jan. 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

Approximately 200 particles were observed during the largest event, which took place on Jan. 6.

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

New Horizons scientists sort through new data gathered on the distant Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which the spacecraft will fly past on Jan. 1, 2019.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

Clinical manifestations include fever, headache, alterations of mentation, focal neurologic deficits, and COMA. (From Clin Microbiol Rev 1994 Jan;7(1):89-116; Walton, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, 10th ed, p321)

(Epidemic Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Late on Jan. 20, 2016, the Van Allen Probes observed chorus waves from its lofty vantage point and immediately after, FIREBIRD II saw microbursts.

(FIREBIRD II and NASA Mission Locate Whistling Space Electrons’ Origins, NASA)

Asteroid 2004 BL86 was initially discovered on Jan. 30, 2004 by a telescope of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

This was discovered on Jan. 10th, but it suspected to have been leaking for a week.

(Performed Product Problem Discovery, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Formed in Jan, 2001 by the merger of the Division of Clinical Sciences and the Division of Basic Sciences, the Center for Cancer Research is the largest component of the National Cancer Institute's Intramural Research Program.

(NCI Center for Cancer Research, NCI Thesaurus)