TURIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turin mean? 

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

1. capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Torino; Turin

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Piedmont; Piemonte (the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley)

 Context examples 

Francesco Massaro at the University of Turin in Italy and Raffaele D'Abrusco at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, show for the first time that the mid-infrared colors of blazars in WISE data correlate to an equivalent measurement of their gamma-ray output.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)