Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range extending about 240 km (150 mi) along the French-Swiss border and rising to 1,720 m (5,643 ft). The area is a popular year-round resort region.
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Examples
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The guts of CERN were underground, consisting primarily of the Large Hadron Collider, a twenty-seven-kilometer-circumference circular tunnel built below the surface of the earth in the area between the Geneva airport and the Jura Mountains.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura Mountains.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura Mountains.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura Mountains.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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BEARDSLEY: Spectators joined the grazing cows on hillside pastures to watch the 101-mile stage that led up into the Jura Mountains, known as the foothills of the Alps. (Soundbite of crowd) BEARDSLEY: The beauty of the Tour is that it is a big, glamorous, international sport, yet it's so accessible to regular folk.
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In December 1999 forty storm petrels including birds ringed on Fair Isle in Shetland and Skomer in Wales caught up in vile weather were forcibly displaced from the Atlantic to the Jura Mountains in Switzerland.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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A 100-meter-deep tunnel near the Jura Mountains on the border of Switzerland and France is the site of what will arguably be the most important event in the history of the universe.
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[126] Jurassic period: that part of the geological series which is older than the Cretaceous and newer than the Triassic; so called from the predominance of rocks of this age in the Jura Mountains.
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It needed only a few sympathetic questions to induce her to tell him of the little town nestled at the foot of the Jura Mountains, of the sparkling lake on which she used to look from her chamber window, and of the Jungfrau, seventy miles away, but seeming so near in clear weather.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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These dark and solemn groves of fir, contrasting so strikingly with the beech woods, now arrayed in their last gaudiest dress, remind me forcibly of Switzerland and the Jura Mountains, which I saw at this very season.
Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Henry Venn Lansdown
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