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NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
Synonyms:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Meronyms (parts of "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"):
National Climatic Data Center; NCDC (the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data)
National Weather Service (the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps)
Holonyms ("National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" is a part of...):
Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)
