nucleonics
Americannoun
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the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
noun
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(functioning as singular) the branch of physics concerned with the applications of nuclear energy
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The study of the quantum behavior of atomic nuclei, in particular of the transitions they make between discrete energy levels as they emit and give off radiation.
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Development of instruments for use in nuclear research.
Other Word Forms
- nucleonic adjective
- nucleonically adverb
Etymology
Origin of nucleonics
Example Sentences
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McConnell got together with Tube, a moneymaker with interests ranging from bicycles to nucleonics, agreed to set up a new company to buy Aluminium.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are giving the Atomic Age a mighty shove by designing a power-producing pile, the most promising peacetime application of nucleonics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Can the physicists with their nucleonics and the cyberneticists with their computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created?
From Time Magazine Archive
The link between doctorates and dollars is clear in the new science-oriented industries, aerospace, electronics and nucleonics, which more and more cities count on to create thousands of new jobs a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Is that the information, the data, that makes Snookums so priceless, aside from his nucleonics work?”
From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall
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