national academy

Noun

Meaning

national academy (plural national academies)

A body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

learned society

Examples

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. Paul R. Ehrlich

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Richard Feynman became so exasperated [at the National Academy of Sciences] that he resigned his membership, saying that he saw no point in belonging to an organization that spent most of its time deciding who to let in. Richard Feynman

According to the document, the Defense Ministry, the State Security Committee, the National Academy of Sciences, the State Military Industrial Committee and the State Border Committee have been put in charge of special programs. Source: Internet

“Activity in grafted human iPS cell–derived corticalneurons integrated in stroke-injured rat brain regulatesmotor behaviorProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Source: Internet

Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

nation-building nation-wide national National Academy of Sciences national act national administration