adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 using, producing or resulting from nuclear energy:
a nuclear power station * the nuclear industry * nuclear-powered submarines
2 connected with weapons that use nuclear energy:
a nuclear weapon / bomb / missile * a nuclear explosion / attack / war * the country's nuclear capability (= the fact that it has nuclear weapons) * nuclear capacity (= the number of nuclear weapons a country has)
3 (physics) of the NUCLEUS (= central part) of an atom:
nuclear particles / physics * a nuclear reaction
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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