Oak Ridge

noun

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

Oak Ridge

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

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

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Travis Humble, director of the Quantum Science Center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, said he agreed Microsoft would now be able to deliver prototypes faster - but warned there remained work to do.

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A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a way to thwart deactivation.

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In a new study published in npj Nanophotonics, Naik and his former Ph.D. student Ciril Samuel Prasad -- who has since earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Rice and has taken on a role as a postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- demonstrated a new thermal emitter that promises efficiencies of over 60% despite being application-ready.

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