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CURTISS
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• CURTISS (noun)
The noun CURTISS has 1 sense:
1. United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
Familiarity information: CURTISS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Curtiss; Glenn Curtiss; Glenn Hammond Curtiss
Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Context examples
Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1920) at Columbia University and disseminated to Heston (1949) and then to the NIH (1951).
(F344, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Derived by Curtiss and Dunning (1926) at Columbia University by crossing an inbred August rat with an inbred Copenhagen rat, to Heston (1945) and then to the NIH in 1950.
(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
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