PASADENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pasadena mean? 

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

1. a city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASADENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles

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 ("Pasadena" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

Popp and Siegfried Eggl, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, created a model for a planet in the Kepler 35 system.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was flown on NASA's C-20A.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

"Dark matter is colder than we knew at smaller scales," said Anna Nierenberg of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, leader of the Hubble survey.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

Ganymede's ocean might be organized like a Dagwood sandwich, said Steve Vance of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explaining the moon's resemblance to the Blondie cartoon character's multi-tiered sandwiches.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Researchers led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D., professor of microbiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena observed that germ-free flies, which did not carry bacteria, were hyperactive.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

The innovative approach by Alex Gardner of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and his international team of scientists largely confirms earlier findings, though with a few unexpected twists.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

These scenarios are known well in advance and are carefully monitored by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which sounded the alert regarding the possibility of a collision.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered a way to make current models more accurate.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

Contrary to recent reports, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn, according to mission managers and orbit determination experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

(Saturn Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9, NASA)

There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine, said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, whose team may be closing in.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)