NIJMEGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nijmegen mean? 

• NIJMEGEN (noun)
  The noun NIJMEGEN has 1 sense:

1. an industrial city in the eastern Netherlands

  Familiarity information: NIJMEGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIJMEGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industrial city in the eastern Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Nijmegen" is a part of...):

Holland; Kingdom of The Netherlands; Nederland; Netherlands; The Netherlands (a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level)

 Context examples 

The syndrome is named after the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

(Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

NBS1 mutations are associated with Nijmegen breakage syndrome, chromosomal instability, cancer, and cell cycle checkpoint defects.

(Nibrin, NCI Thesaurus)

Functional mutations in the NBN gene produce allelic variants that are involved in Nijmegen breakage syndrome.

(NBN wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Nijmegen breakage syndrome is also a disease characterized by chromosomal and genomic instability.

(Genomic Instability, NCI Thesaurus)