Irvine

[ ur-vahyn ur-vin ]

noun

1. a city in SW California.
2. Also Irvin. a male given name.

Irvine

¹

/ ˈɜːvɪn /

noun

1. a town on the W coast of Scotland, the administrative centre of North Ayrshire: designated a new town in 1966. Pop: 33 090 (2001)

Irvine

²

/ ˈɜːvaɪn /

noun

1. IrvineAlexander Andrew Mackay1940MBritishLAW: lawyerPOLITICS: politician Alexander Andrew Mackay, Baron, known as Derry. born 1940, British lawyer and Labour politician; Lord Chancellor (1997–2003)

Example Sentences

David Neumark, a UC Irvine economist and national expert on minimum wages and their economic effects, said he was surprised by the outcome and that it was hard to pinpoint a single factor for the measure’s defeat.

From Los Angeles Times

Randy Jeffs, a Republican from Irvine, said he didn’t vote for a presidential candidate last week.

From Los Angeles Times

Brown was one of eight members of the Orange County Fire Authority’s Santiago Hand Crew hurt in the Sept. 18 accident on State Route 241 in Irvine.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers led by the University of California, Irvine are the first to reveal how two neural circuits located in the brain's retrosplenial cortex are directly linked to spatial navigation and memory storage.

From Science Daily

"By demonstrating how specific circuits in the RSC contribute to different aspects of cognition, our findings provide an anatomical foundation for future studies and offer new insights into how we learn and remember the space around us," said lead and co-corresponding author Xiangmin Xu, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of anatomy and neurobiology and director of the campus's Center for Neural Circuit Mapping.

From Science Daily