Test Ban

  

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Test Ban

Definition: Test Ban

Test Ban

Noun

1. 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.
 

Commercial Usage: Test Ban

DomainTitle

Books

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A Better Shield Than Missile Defense (reference)

  • Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty 1939-1963 (reference)

  • Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Monitoring (reference)

  • India's Nuclear Tests Show Folly of Rushing Test Ban Treaty [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Mefta : a key to Jewish and Israel-Arab peace, nuclear peace, and properity : a Middle East free trade area (Mefta) for Jewish and Israel-Arab peace, a universally-binding test ban to block Iran and North Korea bombs, and cheap oil to spur economy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Test Ban

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Test ban : No! Non!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Test Ban

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Speeches: Test Ban

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969In 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

1993-2001It's been two years since I signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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Expressions: Test Ban

Expressions using "test ban": agreement for nuclear test ban nuclear test ban. Additional references.

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Modern Translations: Test Ban

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

   

Russian 

  

запрещение испытаний ядерного оружия. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Test Ban

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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Alternative Orthography: Test Ban


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

54 65 73 74      42 61 6E

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

    

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

01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000010 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0073 0074      0042 0061 006E

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

547185862366780

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INDEX

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


  

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