NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration mean? 

• NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA

Hypernyms ("National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"):

National Climatic Data Center; NCDC (the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data)

National Weather Service (the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps)

Holonyms ("National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" is a part of...):

Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)

 Context examples 

Co-author of the study and senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Michael McPhaden, tells SciDev.Net: “The MJO contributes to flooding, dry spells, heat waves, severe tropical storms and other extreme weather events in the far reaches of the globe.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

During 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a simultaneous space weather event brought down radio communications used by first responders, aviation and maritime channels for eight hours on the day the hurricane made landfall.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)