ct

Noun
  1. A New England state;
    One of the original 13 colonies (synset 109090929)
    is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    has:
    • bridgeport - a port in southwestern Connecticut on Long Island Sound
    • farmington - a residential town in central Connecticut
    • capital of connecticut, hartford - the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business
    • new haven - a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University
    • new london - a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century
    • waterbury - a city in west central Connecticut
    • housatonic, housatonic river - a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound
    • long island sound - a sound between Long Island and Connecticut
    • taconic mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont
    is a part of:
    • america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
    • new england - a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
    same as: connecticut, constitution state, ct., nutmeg state
  2. A method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis (synset 100903174)
    is a type of: x-radiation, x-raying - obtaining images by the use of X rays
    same as: cat, computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography

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