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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An unincorporated community of north-central New Mexico northwest of Santa Fe. It is the site of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was established in 1942 for the purpose of developing the first atomic bombs.

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  • noun a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced

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Examples

  • Grew up mostly in northern New Mexico in a little mountain town called Los Alamos, home of the Los Alamos national lab and the birthplace of the atomic bomb.

    PdF Chat Time with Adam Conner 2009

  • But none of that is true - her father has been working on a government secret, and she is off to live in a dusty desert town called Los Alamos, hours away across the country.

    Archive 2007-02-01 tanita davis 2007

  • But none of that is true - her father has been working on a government secret, and she is off to live in a dusty desert town called Los Alamos, hours away across the country.

    The WritingYA Weblog: A Radioactive Rock Collection tanita davis 2007

  • Now, you will be given a fact sheet on the stockpile stewardship program that explains this in more detail, including the supercomputer facility that the President will see at Los Alamos, which is part of our accelerated strategic computational initiative -- also called ASCI -- which will provide the computers and weapons simulations for making critical decisions about the safety and reliability of the weapons stockpile.

    Press Briefing By Robert Bell Of The Nsc ITY National Archives 1998

  • The spaceship took off from a place called Los Alamos, New Mexico.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • The red blob to their west is Los Alamos, which is red because they know which side the bread is buttered on and who butters it.

    Home Theater Forum Colin Dunn 2010

  • The machine that is going into Los Alamos is to be nicknamed Cielo, presumably because the sky is the limit but also because the US National Nuclear Security Administration is frustrated by current performance ceilings as it manages the country's arsenal of 6,000 nuclear weapons.

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • The machine that is going into Los Alamos is to be nicknamed Cielo, presumably because the sky is the limit but also because the US National Nuclear Security Administration is frustrated by current performance ceilings as it manages the country's arsenal of 6,000 nuclear weapons.

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • If the Sartans can't continue that trend, the task could fall to Los Alamos, which is 20-9 and the fifth seed, provided it gets past No. 4 Artesia in another quarterfinal.

    Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico news - Santa Fe New Mexican 2009

  • As long as they don't get wind of how frustrating working for the national laboratories such as Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Livermore can be.

    Russ Wellen: Nuclear Weapons Just Not Sexy Anymore Russ Wellen 2011

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