TUCSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tucson mean? 

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

1. a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUCSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century

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

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

 Context examples 

The asteroid, known as 2014 JO25, was discovered in May 2014 by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona.

(Asteroid to Fly Safely Past Earth on April 19, NASA)

It was discovered on Oct. 13 by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona.

(Catalog of Known Near-Earth Asteroids Tops 15,000, NASA)

Among Bennu's many surprises, the particle ejections sparked our curiosity, and we've spent the last several months investigating this mystery, said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

This pretty much rules out the alien megastructure theory, as that could not explain the wavelength-dependent dimming, said Huan Meng, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is lead author of the new study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

Asteroid 2014 RC was initially discovered on the night of August 31 by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, and independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, located on the summit of Haleakal on Maui, Hawaii.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The observation, by a team of researchers at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; and the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, could help astronomers better understand the evolution of neutron stars — the incredibly dense remnants after a massive star explodes as a supernova.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)

It was discovered on Oct. 13 by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona. 2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.

(The 2016 TB57 asteroid will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31, NASA)

We think two big asteroids crashed into each other, creating a huge cloud of grains the size of very fine sand, which are now smashing themselves into smithereens and slowly leaking away from the star, said lead author and graduate student Huan Meng of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)