Oak Ridge

American  

noun

1. a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.

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Oak Ridge Cultural  

1. A city in Tennessee, where uranium for the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb) was produced during World War II. Since that time, the government has maintained a variety of nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge. (See also Manhattan Project.)

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Example Sentences

To come up with these analyses, MIT number crunchers, working with analysts and a supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, created a model of the entire U.S. jobs market — featuring “151 million workers across 923 occupations in 3,000 counties, covering more than 32,000 distinct skills” — alongside an analysis of the capabilities of 13,000 AI tools.

From MarketWatch

Additional computing resources were provided by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and by the Hyak supercomputer system at the University of Washington.

From Science Daily

Nvidia worked with more than a dozen different quantum companies, including IonQ, Quantinuum and Infleqtion, and a number of national labs, including Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Fermi Laboratory, on the effort.

From The Wall Street Journal

Azoff, 77, heads Azoff Co., a music and entertainment company, and founded Oak Ridge, which offers venue development and management services.

From Barron's

Azoff’s Oak Ridge is a project manager of that development.

From Barron's