Kettering

American  

[ket-er-ing] / ˈkɛt ər ɪŋ /

noun

1. Charles Franklin, 1876–1958, U.S. engineer and inventor.

2. a city in SW Ohio.

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Kettering British  

/ ˈkɛtərɪŋ /

noun

1. a town in central England, in Northamptonshire: footwear industry. Pop: 51 063 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Mano advised one Zimbabwean who went on to attend Duke, Yale and Harvard universities and is now an oncologist specializing in lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Ravetch's group is now collaborating with scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Duke University to further evaluate the therapy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

Torbay, Kettering and Musgrove Park hospitals are all delayed – they are estimated to be open nine to ten years later than under the previous plan.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Schlossberg was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, where her cancer alternated between remission and relapse after several bone-marrow transplants and clinical trials, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

But the Meeting House at Kettering, though threatened, was preserved.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas