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NOV
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following October and preceding December
Synonyms:
Nov; November
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Nov" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Nov"):
November 5 (anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot)
11 November; Martinmas; St Martin's Day (the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland)
All Saints' Day; Allhallows; Hallowmas; Hallowmass; November 1 (a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835)
All Souls' Day; November 2 (a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)
Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans' Day; Veterans Day (a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954)
Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)
mid-November (the middle part of November)
Holonyms ("Nov" 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:
This is usually associated with CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA (e.g., SKULL FRACTURE involving the TEMPORAL BONE), NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES, or other conditions, but may rarely occur spontaneously. (From Am J Otol 1995 Nov;16(6):765-71)
(Cerebrospinal Fluid Otorrhea, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Licensing factors are required for licensing and central to ensuring that replication occurs once per cell cycle. (from J Biol Chem 2001 Nov 30;276(48):44905-11)
(Licensing Factor, NCI Thesaurus)
MAVEN launched Nov. 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying three instrument packages.
(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
We arrived at Lisbon, Nov. 5, 1715.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They are endorsed outside, as you see, ‘Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth on the 8th October, 1855, to her destruction in N. lat. 15º 20’, W. long. 25º 14’ on Nov. 6th.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On Monday, Nov. 14, the moon is at perigee at 6:22 a.m. EST and “opposite” the sun for the full moon at 8:52 a.m. EST (after moonset for most of the US).
(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)
On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four TCM thrusters for the first time in 37 years and tested their ability to orient the spacecraft using 10-millisecond pulses.
(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)
The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
