English noun: CT |
1. | CT (location) a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies |
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| Synonyms | Connecticut, Constitution State, Nutmeg State |
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| Instance hypernym | American state |
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| Part holonym | Bridgeport, capital of Connecticut, Farmington, Hartford, Housatonic, Housatonic River, Long Island Sound, New Haven, New London, Taconic Mountains, Waterbury |
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| Part meronym | America, New England, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA |
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2. | CT (act) 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 |
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| Synonyms | CAT, computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography |
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| Broader (hypernym) | X-radiation, X-raying |
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