OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ohio State University mean? 

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (noun)
  The noun OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY has 1 sense:

1. a university in Columbus, Ohio

  Familiarity information: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Columbus, Ohio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Ohio State University" is a part of...):

capital of Ohio; Columbus (the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University)

 Context examples 

A team from Ohio State University set out to improve the ability of the heart to contract by using protein engineering.

(Engineered protein restores heart function, NIH)

An experiment by researchers of Ohio State University focused on movie characters with guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We knew we had one big problem with increasing rates of ice discharge by some large outlet glaciers, said Michael Bevis, lead author of the paper and a professor of geodynamics at Ohio State University.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

By probing the effect that vitamin D-3 has on the cells that make up the lining of blood vessels, scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus have identified for the first time the role that the sunshine vitamin plays in preserving cardiovascular health.

(Vitamin D-3 Could 'Reverse' Damage to Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A research team led by Drs. Jerod S. Denton of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Peter M. Piermarini of Ohio State University, and Corey Hopkins of the University of Nebraska Medical Center set out to develop a new class of insecticides that target the mosquito kidney.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a material called magnetic shape memory polymer that uses magnetic fields to transform into a variety of shapes.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)

Astronomers at the Ohio State University, Columbus, revealed the discovery of an exoplanet, named KELT-9b and according to the university's astronomy professor Scott Gaudi, it is the hottest gas giant planet that has ever been discovered.

(Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet, Wikinews)