TARA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tara mean? 

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

1. a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Eire; Ireland; Irish Republic; Republic of Ireland (a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921)

 Context examples 

Sodium chloride, for example, turned a shade of yellow similar to that visible in a geologically young area of Europa known as "Tara Regio."

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Our exciting findings don't just extend back the record of life living in hot springs by 3 billion years, they indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to about 580 million years, said study first author, UNSW PhD candidate, Tara Djokic.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By taking a close look with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the research team was able to identify a distinct absorption in the visible spectrum at 450 nanometers, which matched the irradiated salt precisely, confirming that the yellow color of Tara Regio reflected the presence of irradiated sodium chloride on the surface.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)