JASON

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

1. (Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece

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

• JASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

Chih-Hsiang "Jason" Yang, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California who led the study, said the results suggest a simple way for people to boost their wellbeing throughout the day.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Data also came from Jason-1, NASA's satellite that was redirected to map gravity fields during the last year of its 12-year mission.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

One of the study's authors, UMass Amherst's Jason Kamilar, hopes the team's findings will help guide future research.

(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)

Acquired resistance is important because it is the basis of vaccination campaigns based on 'herd immunity,' where immunization of a subset of individuals protects all from a pathogen, said Jason Rohr, a biologist at the University of South Florida (USF) who led the research team along with Taegan McMahon of the University of Tampa.

(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)