NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Academy of Sciences mean? 

• NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES has 1 sense:

1. an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("National Academy of Sciences" is a kind of...):

academy; honorary society (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)

 Context examples 

Greenland's ice is melting faster than previously thought, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

The breakthrough came in a report in the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

A new Stony Brook University-led study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides a biophysical model that reveals how with age, damage accumulates in the shapes of cellular proteins and triggers death.

(Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death, National Science Foundation)

A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

According to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is down to 7,100 individuals remaining worldwide, most of them in Africa and, rarely, in Asia.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

Greenland's much larger neighbor, the Antarctic ice sheet, is also losing ice faster than previously thought, according to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)