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1980S

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1980 to 1989

Synonyms:

1980s; eighties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("1980s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

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 Context examples: 

Maintained as an outbred stock until the mid-1980s, then brother x sister mating initiated by A.P. Provoost to produce two strains designated FHH (also known as FHR) and FHL, which differ in hypertension and proteinuria.

(FHH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

In the 1980s the colony on Pig Island in the sub-Antarctic archipelago of Crozet, about halfway between the tip of Africa and Antarctica, was estimated to contain some two million of the flightless birds.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)

First detected in the 1980s, the Antarctic ozone hole forms during the Southern Hemisphere’s late winter as the returning sun’s rays accelerate reactions involving man-made forms of chlorine and bromine, like chlorofluorocarbons, that concentrate over Antarctica during winter.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)