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Definition: Nautilus |
NautilusNoun1. A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power. 2. Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells. 3. Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nautilus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1734. (references) |
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This article is about the mollusc species. The name Nautilus can also refer to a brand of very high end Nautilus speakers made by B&W, the next generation Nautilus file manager for GNOME v2.0, and a number of submarines named Nautilus.
The nautilus is a marine creature of the cephalopoda class. It is the sole member of the subclass Nautiloidea. They are found only in the western Pacific, inhabiting waters around coral reefs. The species has survived relatively unchanged for millions of years, much like the coelacanth.
Nautilus shellThe nautilus is similar in general form to other cephalopods, with a prominent head and tentacles, the nautilus have up to ninety tentacles, although without suckers. Unlike the others of the class the bony structure of the body is externalised as a shell, providing protection and buoyancy.
The shell is calcareous and internally divided in chambers, phragmocone, that are divided by septa and are all pierced by a tube, the siphuncle. The last fully open chamber is the living chamber,as the nautilus matures its body moves forward, sealing the shell behind it, adults can have thirty or more chambers to their shell. The buoyancy is generally neutral, but it can be controlled by gas and fluid being pumped into or from the chambers by an osmotic process along the siphuncle. The control of buoyancy in this manner limits the nautilus, they cannot operate under high hydrostatic pressures and few venture below 300 m. Around 750 m is the maximum depth of any species.
Like other cephalopods they swim by jet action, using their hyponome and by pistoning water by head movements into and out of the living chamber. They are predators and feed mainly on shrimp and other small sea-life.
Unlike other cephalopods they do not have good vision, their eye structure is highly developed but lacks a lens - there is simply a hole through which water can pass.
The nautilis are sexually dimorphic and reproduce by eggs. Attached to rocks in shallower waters they take twelve months to develop before hatching out at around 30 mm long. The largest adults are no more than 300 mm in diameter.
There are seven modern species: Allonautilus perforatus, A. scrobiculatus, Nautilus belauensis, N. macromphalus, N. pompilius pompilius, N. pompilius suluensis, N. stenomphalus. Common names are the Chambered nautilus, Emperor nautilus, and Bellybutton nautilus.
Fossil records indicate that the class was much more extensive and varied in the past. They developed in the Cambrian period and were a significant sea predator in the Ordovician period, certain species reaching over 2.5 metres in size. The other subclass Coleoidea diverged over 400 million years ago and the nautilis is relatively unchanged since that time.
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Nautilus was the first practical submarine, commissioned by Napoleon and designed by the American inventor Robert Fulton. Testing of this craft was successfully carried out in France in 1800-1801, when Fulton and three mechanics descended to a depth of 25 feet. Further tests in Britain proved successful in destroying heavy brigs in 1805.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nautilus (Fulton)."
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There have been a number of different submarines named "Nautilus", after the spiral-shelled nautilus mollusc.
- Nautilus, the first practical submarine, invented by Robert Fulton in 1800.
- The Nautilus, famous early fictional submarine from Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mystery Island.
- USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.
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Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be primarily a file manager, but there is support for web and file viewing too.
External link
- http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/
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The Nautilus was the name of the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mystery Island. Like the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, the Nautilus was named after Robert Fulton's submarine Nautilus.The Nautilus was designed and commanded by Captain Nemo, a former Indian prince and engineer. Its engines were powered by electricity from sodium-mercury batteries, and the crew harvest the seas to get all their staples.
From its attacks on ships, using a ramming prow to puncture target vessels below the waterline, the world thought it a sea monster.
Its pieces were built to order in Creusot, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Paris, Prussia (Krupp), Motala (Sweden), New York, etc. Then the pieces were assembled by Nemo's men in a deserted island.
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At the end of "Twenty Thousand Leagues", the ship is sucked into the Maelstrom.
Tell us more about the Nautilus as described by Jules Verne
External links
- Verne's Nautilus. Models and speculation from the book data.
- Nautilus Models. Commercial models of the Nautilus.
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Synonyms: NautilusSynonyms: chambered nautilus (n), nuclear submarine (n), nuclear-powered submarine (n), paper nautilus (n), pearly nautilus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nautilus |
| English words defined with "nautilus": Argonauta ♦ Cephalopoda, class Cephalopoda ♦ genus Argonauta ♦ Nautili, Nautilite, Nautiloid, Nautiluses ♦ Octopoda, order Octopoda ♦ Polythalamous ♦ Siphoniferous ♦ Tetrabranchiata. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nautilus": Ammonites. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nautilus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (nautilus), Romanian (nautilus). |
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Clever | Body By Nautilus; Brain By Mattel. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nautilus (1998) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Captain Nemo taking a star sight from the deck of the NAUTILUS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Captain Nemo observing a giant octopus from the viewing port of the submarine Nautilus. In Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea.". Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Observing marine life from the Submarine Nautilus. From Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea.". Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Nautilus (SS-168) on a burning Japanese aircraft carrier during the early afternoon of 4 June 1942, as seen through the submarine's periscope. Nautilus thought she had attacked Soryu, and that her torpedoes had exploded when they hit the target. Most evidence, however, is that the ship attacked was Kaga, and that the torpedoes failed to detonate. The ship shown in this wartime diorama does not closely resemble either of those carriers. Credit: NAVY. |
 | USS Nautilus (SS-571), the Navy's first atomic-powered submarine on its initial sea trials / Official U.S. Navy photo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nautilus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nautilus print. Print of a nautilus with Latin text I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Nautilus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Nautilus" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Australia | Nautilus Australia Ltd. |
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Expressions using "nautilus": chambered nautilus ♦ genus Nautilus ♦ paper nautilus ♦ pearly nautilus. Additional references. | |
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Containing "nautilus": Conning Towers-Nautilus Park. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nautilus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | النوتر البحار حيوان. (various references) | |
French | nautile. (various references) | |
German | nautilus, schiffboot. (various references) | |
Greek | ναυτίλοσ (nautical, navigator). (various references) | |
Italian | nautilo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 葵貝 (paper nautilus), 鸚鵡貝 (chambered nautilus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうむがい (chambered nautilus), あおいがい (paper nautilus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | autilusnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | náutilo (argonaut), molusco fóssil, argonauta (argonaut). (various references) | |
Romanian | nautilus. (various references) | |
Russian | наутилус;кораблик. (various references) | |
Spanish | nautilo (pearly nautilus). (various references) | |
Swedish | pärlbåtsnäcka. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кораблик, наутилус. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nautilus": nautiluses. (additional references) | |
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"Nautilus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: natious, nautalus, nautilis, nautilius, nautious. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nautilus" (pronounced nô"tulus) |
| 5 | -t u l u s | tantalus. |
| 4 | -u l u s | acropolis, anomalous, calculus, Carolus, fabulous, frivolous, garrulous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, nebulous, necropolis, Oxalis, pendulous, perilous, populace, populous, querulous, ridiculous, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, stimulus, syphilis, tremulous, unscrupulous. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: instal, insult, sultan, sunlit. | |
-3 letters: alist, anils, antis, aunts, lints, litas, luaus, lunas, lunts, nails, saint, satin, sault, slain, slant, snail, stain, suint, tails, tains, talus, tunas, ulans, ulnas, unais, unaus, units, unlit, until, usual. | |
-4 letters: ails, ains, aits, alit, alts, anil, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, lain, last, lati, lats, lins, lint. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: nautiluses, ululations, unsuitable, unsuitably. | |
+3 letters: cumulations, funambulist, pustulation, subluxation, undulations, uninsulated, unspiritual. | |
+4 letters: altitudinous, auscultating, auscultation, fluctuations, fulgurations, funambulists, incautiously, lucubrations, neurulations, pullulations, pustulations, simultaneous, subluxations, undisputable, unisexuality, unscriptural. | |
+5 letters: accumulations, auscultations, beautifulness, elucubrations, intramuscular, mountainously, platitudinous, postinaugural, punctualities, sublieutenant, subpopulation, uncustomarily, unjustifiable, unjustifiably, unsubstantial, unsuitability, unsustainable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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