Neuchâtel

American  

[noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, noo-shuh-tel, nyoo-, nœ-shah-tel] / ˌnu ʃəˈtɛl, ˌnju-, ˈnu ʃəˌtɛl, ˈnju-, nœ ʃɑˈtɛl /

noun

1. a canton in W Switzerland. 309 sq. mi. (800 sq. km).

2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Neuchâtel.

3. Lake of, a lake in W Switzerland. 85 sq. mi. (220 sq. km).

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Neuchâtel British  

/ nøʃɑtɛl /

noun

1. a canton in the Jura Mountains of W Switzerland. Capital: Neuchâtel. Pop: 167 000 (2002 est). Area: 798 sq km (308 sq miles)

2. a town in W Switzerland, capital of Neuchâtel canton, on Lake Neuchâtel: until 1848 the seat of the last hereditary rulers in Switzerland. Pop: 32 914 (2000)

3. a lake in W Switzerland: the largest lake wholly in Switzerland. Area: 216 sq km (83 sq miles)

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Neuchâtel

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from Stockholm University and the University of Neuchâtel provide a new explanation for the evolution of helping behavior with social bonds that more closely aligns with observed phenomena.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

The oath alone won’t fix these deeper problems, agrees Sundin’s collaborator Dominique Roche, an ecologist and metascientist at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 12, 2022

Barclay notes that in addition to helping users, his “Unfollow Everything” tool was being used by researchers at the Swiss University of Neuchâtel to study the effects of the News Feed on people’s happiness.

From The Verge ● Oct. 8, 2021

This is bad for its users, and also for the University of Neuchâtel which will no longer be able to use it to study the News Feed.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2021

One sole circumstance we have read with clear sympathy, in the old Moniteur Newspaper: how Marat's Brother comes from Neuchâtel to ask of the Convention, "that the deceased Jean-Paul Marat's musket be given to him."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various