911
[ nahyn-wuhn-wuhn, nahyn-i-lev-uhn ]
/ ˈnaɪnˌwʌnˈwʌn, ˈnaɪn ɪˈlɛv ən /
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(in the United States and Canada) the telephone number used to reach emergency medical, fire, and police services.
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Origin of 911
First recorded in 1965–70
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Other definitions for 911 (2 of 2)
9/11
or 9-11
[ nahyn-i-lev-uhn ]
/ ˈnaɪn ɪˈlɛv ən /
September 11, 2001: the day on which Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Virginia: the fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Also called nine-eleven .
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