noaa

English Thesaurus

1. an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather (noun.group)

hypernym	:	agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office,
definition	:	an administrative unit of government (noun.group)

part holonym	:	national climatic data center, ncdc,
definition	:	the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data (noun.group)

part holonym	:	national weather service,
definition	:	the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps (noun.group)

part meronym	:	commerce, commerce department, department of commerce, doc,
definition	:	the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 (noun.group)

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