PISA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pisa mean? 

• PISA (noun)
  The noun PISA has 1 sense:

1. a city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower

  Familiarity information: PISA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PISA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Pisa"):

Leaning Tower; Leaning Tower of Pisa (a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174)

Holonyms ("Pisa" is a part of...):

Toscana; Tuscany (a region in central Italy)

 Context examples 

Ah, if you could but see my own dear Pisa, the Duomo, the cloisters of Campo Santo, the high Campanile, with the mellow throb of her bells upon the warm Italian air!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the- bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Within hours of the initial Fermi detection, LIGO and the Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Observatory near Pisa, Italy, greatly refined the event's position in the sky with additional analysis of gravitational wave data.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

The collision was observed Aug. 14 at 10:30:43 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) using the two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector, funded by CNRS and INFN and located near Pisa, Italy.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)