VANDERBILT

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

1. United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

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

• VANDERBILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Commodore Vanderbilt; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Vanderbilt

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

That could soon change, according to new simulations conducted by a team at Vanderbilt University, Georgia Tech, California Institute of Technology, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on what's next for gravitational wave astronomy.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and Ian A. Wilson, D. Phil., of The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, led the team.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Vanderbilt University and colleagues around the world took advantage of a simulated mission to Mars to put the old adage to the test.

(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, 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)

As a stalagmite grows, it records the chemistry of the water that has percolated from the surface to the cave (ceiling) and which ultimately drips on to the stalagmite, says Elli Ronay, study researcher from the department of earth and environmental sciences, Vanderbilt University, US.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

As a symphony orchestra emits sound across an array of frequencies, the gravitational waves emitted by black holes occur at different frequencies and times, said lead author Karan Jani of Vanderbilt University.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)