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MIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An engineering university in Cambridge
Synonyms:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT
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 ("MIT" 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)
Context examples:
However, a new study conducted by the Riken-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics challenges this theory, suggesting that memories are simultaneously stored in the hippocampus and cortex, but remain silent in the cortex for about two weeks before reaching a mature state.
(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Granada and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that rather than living alone, microbial plankton in the ocean come together in complex albeit short-lived communities.
(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)
Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard examined DNA from 24 species of enterococci, taken from the guts of a wide variety of animal and human hosts.
(Enterococci may have evolved antimicrobial resistance millions of years ago, NIH)
A study led by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the first to observe the complex set of biochemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune responses during flare-ups of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
(New findings reveal how microbiome is disrupted during disease flare-ups, National Science Foundation)
The astronomers, from Arizona State University (ASU), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, made the discovery with their Experiment to Detect the Global EoR (Epoch of Reionization) Signature (EDGES) project.
(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)
The engineers who developed the technique, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg and Edward Boyden at MIT, assert it offers the ability to image large, intact, 3-D brain structures with nanoscale precision for the first time.
(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)
The current worst-case scenario of sea level rise from Antarctica is based on the idea that cliffs higher than 90 meters would fail catastrophically, said Brent Minchew of MIT, a co-author of the paper.
(Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to ice-sheet instability as much as predicted, National Science Foundation)
"Here on Earth, oxygen is a really impressive sign of life," says lead author Clara Sousa-Silva, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
MIT’s cutting-edge technique simply requires a laser and an absorbent gel (commonly used in baby diapers) — materials that most biology and engineering labs already have.
(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
