UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of Washington mean? 

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

1. a university in Seattle, Washington

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Seattle, Washington

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 Washington" is a part of...):

Seattle (a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington)

 Context examples 

Research led by University of Washington scientists explored why the Weddell Sea hole appears only in some years, and what role it could play in global ocean circulation.

(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)

Astronomers from the University of Washington have used data from the Kepler spacecraft to confirm that TRAPPIST-1h orbits its star every 19 days.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)

A spectrum from the Gemini-North telescope taken by the University of Washington team showed that J0045+41 must host at least one supermassive black hole and allowed the researchers to estimate the distance.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

A University of Washington team has discovered that this ancient survival strategy is still being used in low-oxygen parts of the marine environment.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

The Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium is a research collaboration comprising the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

(Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

That's going to be a very interesting question in the future, said first author Melinda Webster, an oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

Now, Dr Sanjay Sinha and his team at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Washington, have used supportive epicardial cells developed from human stem cells to help transplanted heart cells live longer.

(New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts, University of Cambridge)

Copyright 2011 University of Washington.

(Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Camrin Braun, a University of Washington marine ecologist and lead author of the study, says the behavior of the blue sharks was similar to that of white sharks the team tracked in a study last year.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

The most exciting aspect to this analyser is that it uses whole blood (blood components intact) and doesn’t require additional steps and reagents to prepare a sample, says Nathan Sniadecki, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an author of the report.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)