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Definition: FLOATING BATTERY |
FLOATING BATTERY1. (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The floating battery at Charleston, S.C.... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the CSS Georgia, an ironclad floating battery that served in the defenses of Savannah, Georgia. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-f-g-i-l-n-o-r-t-t-t-y" | |
-4 letters: battlefront, elaborating, totteringly. | |
-5 letters: alteration, blattering, flattering, frontality, gyrational, rebottling, refloating, tabletting, tetragonal, titratable, tolerating, trabeation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4C 4F 41 54 49 4E 47 42 41 54 54 45 52 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001100 01001111 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F L O A T I N G   B A T T E R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004C 004F 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047 0042 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4046493554434841236355454395259 |
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