a state in the NW United States, on the Pacific coast. 2,632,663; 96,981 sq. mi. (251,180 sq. km). Capital: Salem. Abbreviation: Oreg., Ore., OR (for use with zip code).

a city in NW Ohio. 18,675.

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1870–75

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Or·e·go·ni·an

[awr-i-goh-nee-uhn, or‐] , adjective, noun

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Salem (ˈseɪləm)

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1.	a city in S India, in Tamil Nadu: textile industries. Pop: 693 236 (2001)
2.	a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Atlantic: scene of the execution of 19 people after the witch hunts of 1692. Pop: 42 067 (2003 est)
3.	a city in the NW USA, the state capital of Oregon: food-processing. Pop: 142 914 (2003 est)
4.	See Jerusalem an Old Testament name for Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18; Psalms 76:2)

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Salem

place mentioned in Gen. xiv.18, from Heb. Shalem, usually said to be another word for Jerusalem and to mean "peace" (cf. Heb. shalom, Arabic salaam). So common as a Baptist and Methodist meetinghouse name that by mid-19c. it (along with Bethel and Ebenezer) had come to be used in Britain generically

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to mean "non-conformist chapel."

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SALEM definition

["SALEM - A Programming System for the Simulation of Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations", S.M. Morris et al, Proc SJCC 33(1), 1968].
(1994-12-08)

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