NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Weather Service mean? 

• NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("National Weather Service" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("National Weather Service" is a part of...):

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA (an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather)

 Context examples 

The National Weather Service has recorded the birds' migratory actions for decades with its constantly scanning weather radars, but the magnitude of information and lack of tools to analyze it has made only limited studies possible.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)