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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Schenectady

place in New York state, from Mohawk (Iroquoian) skah-nehtati "the other side of the pines," containing -hneht- "pine tree."

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Schenectady, NY -- U.S. city in New York
Population (2000): 61821
Housing Units (2000): 30272
Land area (2000): 10.847665 sq. miles (28.095322 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.139972 sq. miles (0.362526 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.987637 sq. miles (28.457848 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65508
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.804076 N, 73.929289 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12304 12305 12306 12307 12308
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Schenectady
Schenectady -- U.S. County in New York
Population (2000): 146555
Housing Units (2000): 65032
Land area (2000): 206.102782 sq. miles (533.803732 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.519441 sq. miles (9.115311 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 209.622223 sq. miles (542.919043 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.807926 N, 73.972317 W
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Schenectady, NY
Schenectady County
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Schenectady (disambiguation)

Schenectady may stand for:

  • Schenectady, New York
  • Schenectady County, New York
  • Schenectady County Airport
  • Schenectady City Hall

Usage examples of "schenectady".

Thus he passed the old Dutch town of Schenectady, Johnson Hall and Johnson Castle, Forts Hunter and Herkimer, and at length reached the head of river navigation at Fort Stanwix.

Odd clusters and strays of Negroes wandered the back roads and cowpaths from Schenectady to Jackson.

While I was in Schenectady he joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed.

Bernard worked for the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, for a while, where he discovered that silver iodide could precipitate certain sorts of clouds as snow or rain.