MELLON

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

1. United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)

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

• MELLON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew Mellon; Andrew W. Mellon; Andrew William Mellon; Mellon

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and MIT approached the problem by using computational simulations of the mechanics of red blood cells as they pass through the spleen.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

A team led by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists wanted to better understand if specific aspects of the family environment following a separation better predicted children's long-term health outcomes.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the University of Pittsburgh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that the swim and tumble behavior bacteria use to move toward food or away from poisons changes when the bacteria encounter obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time — including, for the first time, the pose of each individual's fingers.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)