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Definition: Thermonuclear |
ThermonuclearAdjective1. Using nuclear weapons based on fusion as distinguished from fission. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | Pertaining to a nuclear reaction which is triggered by particles of high thermal energy. (references) |
Military | An adjective referring to the process (or processes) in which very high temperatures are used to bring about the fusion of light nuclei, with the accompanying liberation of energy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Power | Pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thermonuclear |
| English words defined with "thermonuclear": carbon cycle ♦ magnetic bottle ♦ star ♦ thermonuclear bomb, thermonuclear reaction, thermonuclear reactor, thermonuclear warhead. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thermonuclear": astron machine ♦ Beam-Beam Reaction ♦ Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion ♦ Fast Ion, Superthermal Ion, Suprathermal Ion, fusion power density ♦ Lawson criterion ♦ magnetic pressure ♦ OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR, NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ♦ plasma confinement, plasma containment, Plasma-Plasma Reaction, proton-proton reaction ♦ stellarator machine ♦ Thermonuclear Fusion ♦ very high density plasma ♦ WarGames ♦ zeta machine. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We should like to continue the exchange of views on the prohibition of atomic and thermonuclear weapons, general disarmament, and other problems relating to the relaxation of international tension. |
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| "Thermonuclear" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thermonuclear" is used about 91 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 91 | 34,491 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "thermonuclear": thermonuclear bomb ♦ thermonuclear hydrogen bomb ♦ thermonuclear reaction ♦ thermonuclear reactor ♦ thermonuclear warhead ♦ thermonuclear weapon. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "thermonuclear": non-thermonuclear. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thermonuclear | 14 |
bomb thermonuclear | 11 |
thermonuclear weapon | 10 |
global thermonuclear war | 9 |
thermonuclear war | 3 |
fusion thermonuclear | 3 |
mad global thermonuclear warfare | 2 |
game global thermonuclear war | 2 |
pit thermonuclear trigger weapon | 2 |
energy thermonuclear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "thermonuclear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | termobërthamor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نووي حراري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | термоядрен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 热 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | termonukleární. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | termonuklear. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Engineering-ontwerp voor de Internationale Thermonucleaire Experimentele Reactor (Engineering design activities for the international Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER), Coördinatiecomité voor de Overeenkomst tot samenwerking tussen de Europese Gemeenschap voor Atoomenergie en het Amerikaanse Ministerie van energie op het gebied van de beheerste thermische kernversmelting (Coordinating Committee on the Agreement for Cooperation in the field of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion between the European Atomic Energy Community and the United States Department of Energy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته بدرجه حرارت هسته اتمی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Kansainvälisen lämpöydinkoereaktorin tekninen suunnittelutoiminta (Engineering design activities for the international Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thermonucléaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | thermonuklear. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θερμοπυρηνικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תרמו'רעי י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | termonukleáris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | termonucleare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 熱 反応 (thermonuclear reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねつかくは"のう (thermonuclear reaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermonuclearthay termonuclear. (various references) termonuclear. (various references) термоядерный. (various references) termonuklearan. (various references) termonuclear. (various references) termonukleär. (various references) termonükleer. (various references) термоядерний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Thermonuclear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homonuclear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thermonuclear" (pronounced ther'mōnuw"klēer) |
| 6 | -n uw" k l ē er | mononuclear, nuclear. |
| 4 | -k l ē er | cochlear, likelier. |
| 3 | -l ē er | chillier, costlier, deadlier, earlier, friendlier, Hillier, holier, livelier, sillier, uglier. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-m-n-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: enumerator. | |
-4 letters: calenture, centraler, chameleon, coeternal, correlate, crenulate, herculean, latecomer, lunchmeat, mercurate, mucronate, nucleator, numerator, raconteur, recounter, retoucher, tolerance, tracheole, trochleae, trochlear, unclearer, urceolate. | |
-5 letters: aleurone, amelcorn, anchoret, anethole, atheneum, calutron, carotene, cerulean, chaunter, chelator, chlorate, choreman, choremen, chortler, chromate, clamorer, coherent, columnar, comether, corelate, cornmeal, courante, creature, cremator, crumhorn, earthmen, electron, electrum. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 72 6D 6F 6E 75 63 6C 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01110101 01100011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e r m o n u c l e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0072 006D 006F 006E 0075 0063 006C 0065 0061 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54747184798180876978716784 |
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