Irvine

American  

[ur-vahyn, ur-vin] / ˈɜr vaɪn, ˈɜr vɪn /

noun

1. a city in SW California.

2. Also Irvin. a male given name.

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Irvine ¹ British  

/ ˈɜːvɪn /

noun

1. a town on the W coast of Scotland, the administrative centre of North Ayrshire: designated a new town in 1966. Pop: 33 090 (2001)

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Irvine ² British  

/ ˈɜːvaɪn /

noun

1. Alexander Andrew Mackay, Baron, known as Derry. born 1940, British lawyer and Labour politician; Lord Chancellor (1997–2003)

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Example Sentences

As it approaches its first year in operation, the shop, located on the shopping center’s second floor, has seen less traffic than its other four locations in Southern California cities with significant Asian populations, such as San Gabriel and Irvine, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

For a good three minutes, the scene around us looked like a slice of Irvine.

From Los Angeles Times

“This debate has been going on in the United States since before we had the United States,” said Gary Richardson, the Fed’s former in-house historian and an economist at the University of California, Irvine.

From The Wall Street Journal

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the universe, flowing out of a nearby galaxy known as VV 340a.

From Science Daily

"In other galaxies, this type of highly energized gas is almost always confined to several tens of parsecs from a galaxy's black hole, and our discovery exceeds what is typically seen by a factor of 30 or more," said lead author Justin Kader, a UC Irvine postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy.

From Science Daily