NEW MEXICO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Mexico mean? 

• NEW MEXICO (noun)
  The noun NEW MEXICO has 1 sense:

1. a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border

  Familiarity information: NEW MEXICO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW MEXICO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "New Mexico"):

Taos (an artist colony in northern New Mexico)

Wheeler Peak (a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains)

Sacramento Mountains (mountain range in New Mexico to the east of the Rio Grande)

Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)

Gila; Gila River (a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)

Cimarron; Cimarron River (a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River)

Carlsbad Caverns (a group of caverns in southeastern New Mexico noted for their stalactites and stalagmites)

Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)

Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)

Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)

Silver City (a town in southwestern New Mexico)

capital of New Mexico; Santa Fe (capital of the state of New Mexico; located in north central New Mexico)

Roswell (a town in southeast New Mexico)

Los Alamos (a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced)

Las Cruces (a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande)

Gallup (a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border)

Farmington (a town in northwestern New Mexico)

Carlsbad (a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits)

Albuquerque (the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river)

Carlsbad Caverns National Park (a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations)

Holonyms ("New Mexico" is a part of...):

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

First, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope, which scans large swaths of the sky in optical light from New Mexico, imaged SDSS J0849+1114.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Researchers at University of New Mexico believe they may have found a way to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

(Researchers May Have Found Way to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Yet birth rates were higher among people to the North and East, in the San Juan Basin and northern San Juan regions of Northwest New Mexico and Southwest Colorado.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

Analyses of data from more than 600 overhead passes with the onboard radar instrument reveal a deposit more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico.

(Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior, NASA)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

(Mountain States, NCI Thesaurus)

The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On Dec. 12, 2012, DXL launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico atop a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket, reaching a peak altitude of 160 miles and spending five minutes above Earth's atmosphere.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

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 only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes, said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)