chemistry department
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- noun
- /ˈkɛmɪstri dɪˈpɑrtmənt/
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departamento de química
- The chemistry department offers a variety of courses for undergraduate and graduate students.
- chemistry department at the University
Examples
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A glance at the current USNWR rankings of such things reveals that Illinois has a higher-ranked chemistry department than Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Columbia.
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Any remaining lead solution should be disposed of through your hazardous material coordinator (contact your chemistry department).
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A professor of many years in the chemistry department at the University of Oregon says,
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" Sarah" did not wait, but she also did not mention that she was pregnant when she interviewed for her position in a chemistry department.
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I left the doctoral program in good standing with the chemistry department and the university.
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I will take the tablet and have it analyzed by someone at the chemistry department at the school.
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Harry retired from the chemistry department at Syracuse in 1995.
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Harry joined the Syracuse University chemistry department in 1957 as an assistant professor; he became an associate professor in 1962 and a professor in 1969.
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All the sections of Chemistry 101 use the same standardized workbook of home assignments, practice problems, and sample tests that were produced by the chemistry department after a long period of evaluation about what is important for a beginning chemistry student to learn.
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The head of the chemistry department and another crony of Jordan's, Stillman, had chaired the advisory board at the time of Goebel's dismissal.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A part of a university that teaches and studies chemistry
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the division of a school that focuses on chemistry' is directly and compositionally derivable from combining 'chemistry' (the subject) with 'department' (an organizational division). The noun-noun pattern 'X department' is a common, cross-linguistic academic construction, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Chemistry department comes from putting chemistry (the subject with test tubes and experiments) and department (a separate part or group in a school) together. So, it means the part of a university that 'teaches and researches chemistry'.