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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in Massachusetts
Synonyms:
Harvard; Harvard University
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 ("Harvard University" is a part of...):
Cambridge (a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Holonyms ("Harvard University" is a member of...):
Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)
Context examples:
An analysis of 20 butterfly genomes found evidence that many butterfly species — including distantly related ones — show a surprisingly high amount of gene flow among them, said James Mallet of Harvard University, the senior author of the study.
(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)
A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.
(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)
Add another item to the ever-growing list of the dangerous impacts of climate change: Warming oceans are leading to an increase of the harmful neurotoxicant methylmercury in popular seafood, including cod, Atlantic bluefin tuna and swordfish, according to research led by researchers at Harvard University.
(Mercury levels in fish are on the rise, National Science Foundation)
