LOS ALAMOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Los Alamos mean? 

• LOS ALAMOS (noun)
  The noun LOS ALAMOS has 1 sense:

1. a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced

  Familiarity information: LOS ALAMOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOS ALAMOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Los Alamos" is a part of...):

Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

 Context examples 

The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes, said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)