Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region and former duchy of north-central Germany. Established in the 13th century, the duchy became independent in 1918 before joining the Weimar Republic.
- A city of north-central Germany east-southeast of Hanover. Reputedly founded in 861, it is an industrial and commercial center.
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- proper noun a city in
Lower Saxony ,Germany ;Brunswick
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- noun a city in central Germany
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Examples
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In the year of its discovery, Meyer acquired a small sample of radium from Giesel in Braunschweig, to attempt to measure the magnetic permeability of radium.
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Fajans provided lead previously obtained from Giesel in Braunschweig; Richards got samples from Ellen Gleditsch, the Norwegian chemist who was then working with Boltwood; Ramsay sought supplies from the Cornwall pitchblende and the British Radium Corporation, a new company that established a factory for producing radium bromide under Ramsay's own directorship. 33
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This intermediate reference was shuttled to the PTB in Braunschweig many times for calibration with an elaborate harmonic laser frequency chain.
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It is called the Braunschweig suite, nine rooms in all.
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The € 250 million purchase of Schloss-Arkaden in Braunschweig was made by Deka on behalf of its ImmobilienEuropa fund.
No Comeback Yet 2011
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Shown, an undated picture taken with electronic microscope shows enterohaemorrhagic E. coli at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany.
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Krückeberg and Willemeit founded GraftLab in Los Angeles in 1998 with Wolfram Putz, who they studied with at the Technical University in Braunschweig.
Designing a New Urban Landscape William Boston 2011
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Gustav Braunschweig sank his gums into the officer's arm -- but to no effect.
Magazines Maxine 2009
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Glikl set up a shop in Hamburg for manufacturing stockings and sold them near and far; she bought pearls from every Jew in town, sorted them, and sold them by size to appropriate buyers; she imported wares from Holland and traded them in her store along with local goods; she attended the fairs of Braunschweig, Leipzig, and other towns; she lent money and honored bills of exchange across Europe.
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Glikl set up a shop in Hamburg for manufacturing stockings and sold them near and far; she bought pearls from every Jew in town, sorted them, and sold them by size to appropriate buyers; she imported wares from Holland and traded them in her store along with local goods; she attended the fairs of Braunschweig, Leipzig, and other towns; she lent money and honored bills of exchange across Europe.
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