Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research)—originally Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research)
from The Century Dictionary.
- To elect and make known an intention to enter upon an inheritance: a modern term used in reference to Roman law.
- To concern.
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- proper noun European Council for Nuclear Research (derived from French acronym)
Etymologies
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The name CERN derived from the acronym in French for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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"One key test was to repeat the measurement with very short beam pulses," the Geneva-based organization, known by its French acronym CERN, said in a statement.
CERN Experiment Excludes 1 Error In Faster-Than-Light Finding 2011
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The official position of CERN is that experiments in particle accelerators are completely safe and the risks have already been adequately analyzed and dismissed in previous studies.
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We are about to create black holes, and maybe Higgs bosons at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland … but we cannot tell with anything approaching accuracy what path a hurricane will take.
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When a physicist at CERN is murdered, evidence is discovered of the rebirth of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - and it's up to Langdon and Vetra to stop a terrorist attack and uncover the truth behind the powerful organization.
Ayelet Zurer Cast as Vittoria Vetra in Angels and Demons - Updated! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, and it is also the birthplace of the world wide web.
Boing Boing 2007
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently under construction at CERN is the greatest basic science endeavor in history.
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I should perhaps add that to them CERN is of crucial importance, as it has been to me.
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It was also the initiation of several collaborations in CERN research which continued through the mid-70s.
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Colleagues at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva - best known under its French acronym CERN as the site of the world's biggest particle collider - and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL, where Hicheur was based, told The Associated Press that the scientist was an example of excessive anti-terror laws.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By FRANK JORDANS 2011
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