UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of Pittsburgh mean? 

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (noun)
  The noun UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH has 1 sense:

1. a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("University of Pittsburgh" is a part of...):

Pittsburgh (a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Alejandro Hoberman at the University of Pittsburgh investigated whether a shortened course of antibiotics would work as well in young children as the standard 10-day treatment and reduce the risk of antibacterial resistance.

(No benefit to shortening ear infection treatment, NIH)

A team from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigated whether a common but harmless type of virus that people are frequently exposed to, called reoviruses, can prompt sensitivity to dietary proteins.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the University of Pittsburgh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that the swim and tumble behavior bacteria use to move toward food or away from poisons changes when the bacteria encounter obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)