NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Science Foundation mean? 

• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Science Foundation; NSF

Hypernyms ("National Science Foundation" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

 Context examples 

These waves will have lower frequencies than the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and European Virgo gravitational-wave detector can detect.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Radar imaging is planned at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

(Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1, NASA)

Observations with new and more capable technology can produce unexpected findings like MAMBO-9, said Joe Pesce, National Science Foundation program officer for ALMA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)

Until September 8, astronomers will be using the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to reveal more about it.

(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Alaska are working to understand interactions between changing tree lines and plant-eating animals such as the snowshoe hare.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

They say its strong magnetic field likely led to its being detected by a large radio-telescope in New Mexico known as the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD).

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University and colleagues have studied microbes in the sediments of salt marshes in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in northeastern Massachusetts.

(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)

This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (pink).

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

We now have direct evidence that the cold accretion model is a viable explanation for rapid star formation in distant galaxies, says Matthew Benacquista, a program director in the National Science Foundation

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)