national oceanic and atmospheric administration

Questions about national oceanic and atmospheric administration

What does national oceanic and atmospheric administration mean?

national oceanic and atmospheric administration means "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".

What is another word for national oceanic and atmospheric administration?

Close synonyms include NOAA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is national oceanic and atmospheric administration a common word?

national oceanic and atmospheric administration 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.