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CARLOS

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Overview

CARLOS (noun)
  The noun CARLOS has 1 sense:

1. Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)play

  Familiarity information: CARLOS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CARLOS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andres Martinez; Carlos; Carlos the Jackal; Glen Gebhard; Hector Hevodidbon; Ilich Ramirez Sanchez; Ilich Sanchez; Michael Assat; Salim; Sanchez; Taurus

Instance hypernyms:

terrorist (a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)


 Context examples 


Laís Canniatti Brazaca, a physician and researcher at the São Carlos Chemistry Institute and one of the authors of the study published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, told: The concentrations of various metabolites in tears reflect concurrent blood levels, making them an attractive medium for non-invasive monitoring of physiological parameters.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)

The transistor was developed through tests and modelling carried out jointly by researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the University of South Carolina, United States.

(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)

A team led by Drs. Ronald Davis and Carlos Milla at Stanford University School of Medicine developed a wearable device and tested whether it could measure chloride and sodium levels in patients with cystic fibrosis.

(Diagnosing cystic fibrosis with wearable devices, NIH)

But we have also seen, and this is even more striking, that the therapeutic molecule is capable of reducing the levels of intermediary metabolites of CoQ10 that can be toxic to the power plant of the cells explains Luis Carlos López García, a researcher of the UGR Biomedical Research Center.

(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)

Researchers from the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos Physics Institute, along with scientists from the University of California’s Department of Nanoengineering, in San Diego, immobilised the enzyme on an electrode coupled to a circuit with a constant flow of electrons, and then installed the device on the nose pad of the pair of glasses.

(Brazilian researchers eye biosensors to monitor diabetes, SciDev.Net)



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