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research project

n. research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses [syn: scientific research]

Usage examples of "research project".

James Cozzano had spent most of the spring and summer following the primary campaigns as part of a research project for his doctoral dissertation.

A 178-year research project had reached the end of its first phase today.

And if Grant was ever part of any other research project, it wasn't in the records or in her notes.

As 1 understand it, the Bridge on Jupiter is a research project, designed -to answer some questions-just what questions, nobody's bothered to tell me, and I've been careful not to ask.

Instead, typically, we put it into a physical research project of unprecedented size.

At the same time, we will mount an aggressive research project aimed at reducing the size and cost of the LifeShield, so that placements which aren't possible now become possible in the future.

It's an ongoing research project, to see if the weather is the cause of any interference.

It is an extremely secret research project which the government has entrusted to us.

The first person to successfully produce a crystalline form of nduhte was Jams Rondel, an Ixian scientist specializing in crystalliform research Rondel had been seeking a process which would permit him to crystallize die durable and highly reflective substance as part of a top-secret research project the Ixians wished to learn to manufacture a physical shield which would protect its user from a lasgun attack (The secrecy of the project is more easily understood when it is recalled that the God Emperor banned personal shields during the first years of his reign, and limited possession of lasguns to members of the royal military at Ac end of his first century on the throne ) When Rondel finally announced, in 10937, that he had discovered the proper combination of solvents and .

They planned to have tea, then John would walk down Grafton to Trinity College and begin work at the college library -- the real start of his research project.