NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Aeronautics and Space Administration mean? 

• NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

NASA; National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Hypernyms ("National Aeronautics and Space Administration" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

 Context examples 

Four men trapped under as much as 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris have been rescued in Nepal thanks to a new search-and-rescue technology developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)