NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Climatic Data Center mean? 

• NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER has 1 sense:

1. the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Climatic Data Center; NCDC

Hypernyms ("National Climatic Data Center" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("National Climatic Data Center" is a part of...):

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA (an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather)