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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following July and preceding September
Synonyms:
Aug; August
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Aug" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Aug"):
Assumption; Assumption of Mary; August 15 (celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church)
Dormition; Feast of Dormition (celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th)
mid-August (the middle part of August)
Holonyms ("Aug" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
New Horizons' milestone matches precisely the 25th anniversary of the historic encounter of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft with Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
Shortly after 8:41 a.m. EDT on Aug. 17, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope picked up a pulse of high-energy light from a powerful explosion, which was immediately reported to astronomers around the globe as a short gamma-ray burst.
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
The collision was observed Aug. 14 at 10:30:43 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) using the two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector, funded by CNRS and INFN and located near Pisa, Italy.
(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)
This comet, first spotted by SOHO on Aug. 1, is part of the Kreutz family of comets, a group of comets with related orbits that broke off of a huge comet several centuries ago.
(ESA, NASA’s SOHO Sees Bright Sungrazer Comet, NASA)
Imke de Pater, professor and chair of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the first two massive eruptions on Aug. 15, 2013, in Io's southern hemisphere, using the near-infrared camera (NIRC2) coupled to the adaptive optics system on the Keck II telescope, one of two 10-meter telescopes operated by the Keck Observatory.
(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)
De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption - one of the brightest ever seen on Io - on Aug. 29, using both the Near-Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).
(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)
