1950S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1950s mean? 

• 1950S (noun)
  The noun 1950S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1950 to 1959

  Familiarity information: 1950S used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 1950S (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1950 to 1959

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

1950s; fifties

Hypernyms ("1950s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

 Context examples 

Astronomers have known the physical processes that create the elements since the 1950s.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

The African green monkey has been in use in scientific research since the 1950s and its tissues are used to produce vaccines for polio and smallpox.

(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

It was used in the 1950s and 60s to enhance wound healing.

(Bovine Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)

The Landrace pig was imported into the UK in 1949 and disseminated worldwide beginning in the 1950s.

(Landrace Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

In the 1950s, scientists figured out that a solar wind blows from the sun to the edges of the solar system.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

These radio emissions from Jupiter have been known about since the 1950s but had never been analyzed from such a close vantage point.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

It combines data from NASA's Bromide, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment (BROMEX) field campaign, NASA's Operation IceBridge flights, and instrumented buoys and ice floes staffed by Soviet scientists from the 1950s through the 1990s.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

The associated very dim gas cloud remained unknown until the 1950s, when American astronomer Stewart Sharpless spotted it on photographs.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

The late Alan J. Charig, then-curator of fossil reptiles, amphibians and birds at the Natural History Museum of London, was the first to study those original specimens in the 1950s.

(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)

Quaternary ammonium compounds were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s before the standardization of toxicity studies.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)