Amherst

[am-erst]

noun

1. Jeffrey, Baron, 1717–97, British field marshal: governor general of British North America 1760–63.

2. a city in W Massachusetts.

3. a town in N Ohio.

4. a town in central Nova Scotia, in SE Canada.

Amherst

/ ˈæmhɜːst /

noun

1. Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst. 1717–97, British general who defeated the French in Canada (1758–60): governor general of British North America (1761–63)

Example Sentences

Charlie left Amherst College after his freshman year to volunteer for Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, and, though he eventually returned, he remained far more interested in his own idealism than in making money.

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As UMass Amherst researcher Ryan McGrady noted on Bluesky: “The public does not understand how likely Wikipedians are to endure threats, harassment, and trauma for the crime of summarizing what other people write.”

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While the weekend had its bright spots, the incident obviously loomed over the gathering, and one of the most sobering sessions came from McGrady, the UMass Amherst fellow.

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He studied music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received several student awards from DownBeat magazine, and he settled in Chicago in 2007, where he began playing with blues and jazz giants there.

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"Previous versions of artificial neurons used 10 times more voltage -- and 100 times more power -- than the one we have created," says Jun Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author.

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