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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MIT mean? 

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

1. an engineering university in Cambridge

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIT (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 ("MIT" 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 

Now researchers at MIT have found that these rates of collapse may be overestimated.

(Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to ice-sheet instability as much as predicted, National Science Foundation)

Thank Gott, we Germans believe in sentiment, and keep ourselves young mit it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now MIT researchers have found that phosphine is produced by another, less abundant life form: anaerobic organisms, such as bacteria and microbes, that don't require oxygen to thrive.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

'Ich wage die Gedanken in der Schale meines Zornes und die Werke mit dem Gewichte meines Grimms.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Drs. Daniel Baldauf and Robert Desimone of the McGovern Institute at MIT set out to gain a better understanding.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT is committed to shortening the time needed for breakthrough discoveries to directly benefit cancer patients.

(David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, NCI Thesaurus)

Mit- sah, alone, gathering firewood in the forest, encountered the boy that had been bitten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

MIT researchers they invented a way to shrink objects to nanoscale by using a laser, meaning they can take any simple structure and reduce it to one 1,000th of its original size.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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)

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)