NSF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NSF mean? 

• NSF (noun)
  The noun NSF 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: NSF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NSF (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 ("NSF" 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 

The first images from NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope show a close-up view of the sun’s surface, which can provide important detail for scientists.

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

The association of GABARAP with NSF (N-ethyl maleimide sensitive factor), a protein involved in intracellular vesicle transport, supports this hypothesis.

(GABA Receptor Life Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"This research provides fundamental insights into a substance as familiar as water," says Anne-Marie Schmoltner, a program director in NSF's Division of Chemistry.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

"The resulting batteries and solar cells are also mechanically flexible, and thus can be integrated with flexible electronics." (Source: NSF)

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study presents a roadmap for capturing 4-to-10-year snapshots of intermediate-mass black hole activity using both ground- and upcoming space-based detection instruments, including NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

The research was conducted in part at NSF's McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research site in Antarctica, with additional work throughout the Arctic.

(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)

The novelty of this research is its global-scale prediction of where disturbance-sensitive species are likely to be found, said Betsy von Holle, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)

These exciting outcomes show that long-term commitment to basic research has incredible potential for real-world impact, says Anne Sylvester, a program officer in NSF's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

It provides a wonderful example of the unanticipated discoveries that result from applying state-of-the art research techniques to understudied organisms, said Maria Sutton of NSF's Directorate for Biological Sciences.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

The evolution of surface and shallow subsurface meltwater across Antarctic ice shelves has important implications for their stability, said program director Paul Cutler in NSF's Office of Polar Programs.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)