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Home Dictionary Name: nuclear powered shipnuclear powered ship
A ship for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor...
nuclear powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor Same as nuclear submarine...
nuclear power
Power derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion power...
Nuclear weapon
A weapon of great explosive power such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction A fission weapon or a fusion weapon The term includes atomic shells for cannon...
Court
Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...
nuclear energy
Energy derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion energy...
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
Nuclear
of pertaining to or using nuclear weapons a nuclear exchange ie a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons...
nuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
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