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Definition: Test Ban |
Test BanNoun1. A ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | There has been no testing of nuclear weapons in Xinjiang since July 1996, after which China signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. (references) | |
Economic History | India | The United States encouraged India to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) immediately and without condition. (references) |
Austria | Recently, Vienna added the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization and the Wassenaar Arrangement (a technology-transfer control agency) to the list of international organizations it hosts. (references) | |
India | India's nuclear tests in May 1998 and its failure to sign such global nonproliferation accords as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty remain serious issues for the United States and India to resolve. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In this period we have taken more steps toward peace-including the test ban treaty-than at any time since the cold war began. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | It's been two years since I signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. |
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Expressions using "test ban": agreement for nuclear test ban ♦ nuclear test ban. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "test ban"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | حظر التجارب. (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 禁止 武器試驗條約 (nuclear test ban treaty). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | interdiction d'essai. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | atomcsend (nuclear test ban). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | divieto dei test nucleari. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | esttay anbay запрещение испытаний ядерного оружия. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: battens. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: absent, batten, bettas. | |
-2 letters: abets, antes, banes, baste, bates, batts, beans, beast, beats, bents, betas, betta, etnas, nabes, nates, neats, netts, stane, state, tabes, taste, tates, teats, tents, testa. | |
-3 letters: abet, anes, ante, ants, ates, bane, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, east, eats, etas, etna, nabe, nabs, neat, nebs, nest, nets, nett, sabe, sane, sate, seat, sent, seta, sett, stab, stat, stet, tabs, tans, tate, tats, teas, teat, tens, tent, test, tets. | |
-4 letters: abs, ane, ant, ate, att, ban, bas, bat, ben, bet, eat, ens, eta, nab, nae, neb, net, sab, sae, sat, sea, sen, set, tab, tae, tan, tas, tat, tea, ten, tet. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, an, as, at, ba, be, en, es, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: abetments, abstinent, abutments, batteners, battiness, betatrons, blastment, debutants, intubates, obstinate, stoneboat, subtenant. | |
+3 letters: abatements, abstention, banquettes, bassetting, battements, blastments, brattiness, debutantes, stoneboats, subtenants, tribunates, turbinates, turntables, unstablest, untestable. | |
+4 letters: abstentions, abstentious, abstinently, antiobesity, bannerettes, battinesses, battlements, blanquettes, contestable, debatements, geobotanist, hebetations, obstinately, obtainments, snakebitten, stenobathic, substantive, trabeations. | |
+5 letters: abstractness, arbitraments, battlefronts, battlewagons, bespattering, botherations, brattinesses, contrastable, counterblast, entablatures, geobotanists, jettisonable, notabilities, obstetrician, rattlebrains, scatterbrain, stablishment, subdebutante, substantiate, substantives, tenabilities, translatable, transmutable, tunabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 73 74      42 61 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000010 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e s t   B a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0073 0074      0042 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547185862366780 |
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