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NGA

NGA

3 8.2
A United States agency that provides maps and satellite images for national security
  • proper noun
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  • The students benefitted from teacher modeling and from writing collaboratively. The Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices NGA Center & Council of Chief State School Officers CCSSO, 2010) emphasize three kinds of texts that students need to learn to write: argument, exposition, and narrative.
  • NGA & CCSSO
  • NGA Center
  • Best Practices, NGA

Heck, even NGA, which is something that was just recently hyped up.

Examples

  • Furthermore, the Common Core State Standards Initiative (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, NGA Center & Council of Chief State School Officers, CCSSO, 2010) also emphasized the importance of asking questions, as explained below by Ciardiello (2012/2013):

    Academic text (2014)

  • If the goal for college and career readiness is to have students "read complex texts with substantially greater independence" (NGA Center & CCSSO, 2010a), then young adult literature clearly has its place as an appropriate, engaging, and sophisticated route to such independence.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Under the NGA, the "just and reasonable" price had come to be associated with average cost.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The end result, for much of the 1970s, was that the interstate gas market would not "clear" at NGA "just and reasonable" prices.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The regulatory structure under the NGA thus eliminated incentives for forward integration.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Both companies were awarded the NGA EnhancedView contract worth -- and get this -- $7.3 billion.

    Blog text (10)

  • National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman Mark Warner has launched his year-long NGA Chairman's Initiative, Redesigning the American High School.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Ms. Thurman's school was in a state that had adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS; National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, NGA Center & Council of Chief State School Officers, CCSSO, 2010), so it was critical that lessons be aligned to meet specific language arts standards.

    Academic text (2014)

  • National education reforms, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS; National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, NGA Center & Council of Chief State School Officers, CCSSO, 2010), place technology at the forefront, making unrivaled demands on students' proficiencies.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, commonly known as the NGA, provides critical geographic intelligence for U.S. national security.

Synonyms

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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  • Formal
6.8

United States government agency that makes and studies maps and satellite images for national security

has identical meaning but is written as an acronym

Surface Forms

NGA main

Morphology

NGA = N + G + A

This is an initialism/acronym formed from letters; the letters themselves carry no lexical meaning a learner can compose to infer the full phrase, so understanding requires knowledge of the expansion.

Etymology

NGA stands for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The part geo means 'earth' and spatial means 'place' or 'space', while intelligence here means 'information' used for security. So the NGA is the U.S. agency that makes maps and uses satellite information about places to help keep the country safe.