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Nuclear Submarine

Definition: Nuclear Submarine

Nuclear Submarine

Noun

1. A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Nuclear Submarine

Synonyms: nautilus (n), nuclear-powered submarine (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nuclear Submarine

English words defined with "nuclear submarine": nautilus, nuclear propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nuclear Submarine

DomainTitle

Books

  • K-19: The Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine (reference)

  • Marine environmental radioactivity surveys at nuclear submarine berths in the UK, 1988 (reference)

  • Ship Dreadnought to Nuclear Submarine (reference)

  • Big Red: The Three-Month Voyage of a Trident Nuclear Submarine (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Nuclear Submarine

Photos:
Nuclear Submarine

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Photo Album: Nuclear Submarine

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"...... Bottom view of the towed sled used by the Navy research ship Mizar in the search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Various types of search and detection equipment can be mounted on this vehicle. Mizar yesterday located objects identified as portions of the hull of the Scorpion at a depth of more than 10,000 feet, about 400 miles southwest of the Azores." Quoted from the original caption, released with this photograph under date of 31 October 1968.Credit: NAVY.

Nuclear submarine Scorpion about to dock in Portsmouth, England.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nuclear Submarine

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Estonia

Several hundred civilian-clad Russian military remained at the nuclear submarine training reactor facility at Paldiski until September 30, 1995, in order to remove equipment and help decommission the facility. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Soyfer and his colleagues had been engaged in measuring the radioactive contamination resulting from a 1985 nuclear submarine accident in Chazhma Bay. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nuclear Submarine

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  nuclear submarine

77
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nuclear Submarine

Language Translations for "nuclear submarine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

atom-u-boot. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

原潜 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

'"せ" (careful selection, catgut, source). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uclearnay ubmarinesay

   

Portuguese

  

cientista nuclear. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

submarino nuclear. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Nuclear Submarine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-r-r-s-u-u"

-4 letters: unmeasurable.

-5 letters: aberrancies, carabineers, increasable, inenarrable, innumerable, irrecusable, reinsurance, uninsurable, unmasculine, unscrambler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nuclear Submarine


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 75 63 6C 65 61 72      53 75 62 6D 61 72 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01110101 01100011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010011 01110101 01100010 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#117 &#99 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#83 &#117 &#98 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0075 0063 006C 0065 0061 0072      0053 0075 0062 006D 0061 0072 0069 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

488769787167842538768796784758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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