los alamos

1. 1.

   a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced

   Broadertown

   Part ofNew Mexico

Questions about los alamos

What does los alamos mean?

los alamos means "a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced".

Is los alamos a common word?

los alamos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.