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1. an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	communication system,
definition	:	a system for communicating (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	amplifier,
definition	:	electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit,
definition	:	electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	tannoy,
definition	:	a loudspeaker (noun.artifact)

2. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	american state,
definition	:	one of the 50 states of the United States (noun.location)

part holonym	:	penn, pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania,
definition	:	a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	allentown,
definition	:	a city in eastern Pennsylvania; an industrial and commercial center (noun.location)

part holonym	:	altoona,
definition	:	a town in central Pennsylvania (noun.location)

part holonym	:	bethlehem,
definition	:	a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production (noun.location)

part holonym	:	erie,
definition	:	a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania (noun.location)

part holonym	:	gettysburg,
definition	:	a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery (noun.location)

part holonym	:	capital of pennsylvania, harrisburg,
definition	:	capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state (noun.location)

part holonym	:	chester,
definition	:	a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia) (noun.location)

part holonym	:	city of brotherly love, philadelphia,
definition	:	the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania (noun.location)

part holonym	:	pittsburgh,
definition	:	a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh (noun.location)

part holonym	:	alleghenies, allegheny mountains,
definition	:	the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia (noun.object)

part holonym	:	allegheny, allegheny river,
definition	:	a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River (noun.object)

part holonym	:	blue ridge, blue ridge mountains,
definition	:	a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia (noun.object)

part holonym	:	lehigh river,
definition	:	a river in eastern Pennsylvania that flows southeast into the Delaware River (noun.object)

part holonym	:	monongahela, monongahela river,
definition	:	a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River (noun.object)

part holonym	:	susquehanna, susquehanna river,
definition	:	a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay (noun.object)

part meronym	:	america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa,
definition	:	North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 (noun.location)

part meronym	:	mid-atlantic states,
definition	:	a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland (noun.location)

domain member region	:	battle of gettysburg, gettysburg,
definition	:	a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union (noun.act)

3. an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk (noun.person)

hypernym	:	begetter, father, male parent,
definition	:	a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) (noun.person)

4. a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	pressure unit,
definition	:	a unit measuring force per unit area (noun.quantity)

5. a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	metal, metallic element,
definition	:	any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. (noun.substance)