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1990S
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The decade from 1990 to 1999
Synonyms:
1990s; nineties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("1990s" is a kind of...):
decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)
Context examples:
The mosaic of color images was obtained in the late 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)
Hot Jupiters, cousins to ultrahot Jupiters with dayside temperatures below 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 Celsius), were the first widely discovered type of exoplanet, starting back in the mid-1990s.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.
(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)
It combines data from NASA's Bromide, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment (BROMEX) field campaign, NASA's Operation IceBridge flights, and instrumented buoys and ice floes staffed by Soviet scientists from the 1950s through the 1990s.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
The spotted owl gained national prominence in the United States during the 1990s, when environmentalists' efforts to preserve its habitat resulted in federal measures forbidding logging on large swaths of land, as well as federal limits on the sales of harvested wood.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
