MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Massachusetts Institute of Technology mean? 

• MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (noun)
  The noun MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. an engineering university in Cambridge

  Familiarity information: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An engineering university in Cambridge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT

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 ("Massachusetts Institute of Technology" 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)

 Context examples 

To systematically test the effects of mutations across the cancer genome, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and their colleagues used a technique called a CRISPR-Cas screen to disrupt specific sequences.

(Novel Approach Gives Insights Into Tumor Development, NIH)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Josh McDermott is leading a research team seeking to answer those questions.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now created variants of the peptide that are potent against bacteria but nontoxic to human cells.

(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopy to decode the light and reveal clues to the chemical makeup of an atmosphere.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

Lindsay says the team from Medical Detection Dogs is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop what he calls an e-nose.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Granada and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that rather than living alone, microbial plankton in the ocean come together in complex albeit short-lived communities.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)

The astronomers, from Arizona State University (ASU), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, made the discovery with their Experiment to Detect the Global EoR (Epoch of Reionization) Signature (EDGES) project.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

National Institutes of Health and Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists identified a previously unappreciated role for the soft palate during research to better understand how influenza (flu) viruses acquire the ability to move efficiently between people.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)