ZHOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zhou mean? 

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

1. the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZHOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Chou; Chou dynasty; Chow; Chow dynasty; Zhou; Zhou dynasty

Hypernyms ("Zhou" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

 Context examples 

Zhou and his team measured velocities of 5,000 kilometers per second.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the quasars Zhou observed, the accretion disks were supplied with fast-falling external mass from surrounding space.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The supermassive black hole in the center of the quasar gobbles up an enormous amount of nearby materials, which glare and shine when they constitute an accretion disk before finally sliding down in the black hole, said Hongyan Zhou, faculty member at the University of Science and Technology of China about the universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)