LIVINGSTON

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

1. American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)

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

• LIVINGSTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Livingston; Robert R. Livingston

Instance hypernyms:

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

 Context examples 

The gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA.

(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)

The collision was observed Aug. 14 at 10:30:43 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) using the two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector, funded by CNRS and INFN and located near Pisa, Italy.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)