Potsdam

[pots-dam, pawts-dahm]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Brandenburg, in NE Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the residence of German emperors; wartime conference July–August 1945 of Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and later, Attlee.

2. a town in N New York.

Potsdam

/ ˈpɔtsdam, ˈpɒtsdæm /

noun

1. a city in Germany, the capital of Brandenburg on the Havel River: residence of Prussian kings and German emperors and scene of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, at which the main Allied powers agreed on a plan to occupy Germany at the end of the Second World War. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

BERLIN—For three years, a crack team of detectives gathered each weekday morning around a whiteboard at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam, near Berlin.

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Climate scientist Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said humanity now faces perhaps 50 to 70 years above 1.5C before possibly dragging temperatures back down.

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The findings come from an international research team led by the University of Potsdam and the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim in collaboration with the Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, and were recently published in Current Biology.

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The next round of talks is set to take place on Friday in Potsdam.

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A study with participation of the University of Potsdam demonstrates the interacting roles of glaciers, vegetation, precipitation, and slope in mobilizing sediment and controlling the current sediment transport in rivers.

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