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Definition of Battleship

1. Noun. Large and heavily armoured warship.

Definition of Battleship

1. Noun. (military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought. ¹

2. Noun. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests. ¹

3. Noun. A guessing game played on grid paper, see (w Battleship (game)) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Battleship

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Battleship

Literary usage of Battleship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and by International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Intercourse and Education (1915)
"The mere interest on the cost of this battleship at &% would pay the salary of a ... The interest for a single year on the cost of the battleship, at 5%, ..."

2. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"New Jersey.—battleship, 15000 tons displacement. Krupp chrome nickel. Georgia.—battleship, 15000 tons displacement. Krupp chrome nickel. ..."

3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1902)
"If we admit, however, the entire practicability of the proposed battleship, the question then is, to what extent, if at all, she would possess superior ..."

4. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"INTERIOR OF A battleship. The story of the complicated character of the interior of a modern battleship is one that has grown somewhat stale in the telling, ..."

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