nuclear

ca-adj

nuclear m or f (masculine and feminine plural nuclears)


nuclear

a nuclear reactor

nuclear technology

Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay).

a nuclear explosion

a nuclear power

Relating to a weapon that derives its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions.

nuclear option, nuclear solution

The states begging for aid get turned away; and sharp cuts in government employment, spending, and, eventually, pension payments are the only alternative future, beyond the nuclear solution of defaulting on our debt.

2011, Todd Lipscomb, Re-Made in the USA, →ISBN:

The nuclear approach is the simpler of the two. When two constraints conflict, you can kill one of them.

2013, Erica Sadun, iOS Auto Layout Demystified, →ISBN, page 150:

We’ve now had 20 years of cautionary tales about replyallpocalypses. For the sake of workplace harmony: keep your pointer off the nuclear button.

2017 February 3, Elle Hunt, “When is it appropriate to reply all? Mostly never”, in The Guardian:

Republicans have taken the historic step of triggering the so-called "nuclear option" to change the rules of the Senate and push through Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, after Democrats blocked the nomination.

2017 April 6, Mythili Sampathkumar, “Democrats filibuster forces Republicans to use 'nuclear option to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick”, in The Independent:

(by extension, figurative, of a solution or response) Involving an extreme course of action, or one with severe consequences.

However, the DNA in a bacterial cell is a single circular molecule and there is no separate nuclear compartment.

2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 17:

(biology) Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell.

Nuclear Polynesian languages include Hawaiian and Samoan.

(archaic) Pertaining to a centre around which something is developed or organised; central, pivotal.

Somehow it is much easier to convey the emotions of gayness — the feelings of outsideness —through anthropomorphism. Gay poet and limerist Edward lear uses animals and creatures perfectly this way […] Even the Muppets — as mainstream and heterosexual as some of them may be — are favorites among many gay men […] Look at Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, such a silly, pompous queen, and even Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family has a lot to say about non-human and non-nuclear arrangements.

1986 December 7, Michael Bronsky, “Gay Man's Dream Realized in Benefit Production of archy and mehitabel"”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 7:

Relating to, being of, or comprising the nuclear family.

центра́лен

pertaining to a centre; central, pivotal

bërthamor

of a weapon: deriving its force from nuclear energy

From Latin nū̆cleus, a contraction of the adjective nuculeus, masculine of feminine nuculea (“pertaining to a small nut”) from nucula + adjectival suffix -eus, -ea, -eum. The Latin nucula + -āris adds up to nuculāris, a term that in English becomes nucular; the Latin nuculea + -āris, becomes Latin nuculeāris (“relative to what pertains to small nut”), later contracted into nuclear. By surface analysis, nucle(us) + -ar = nucle- + -ar. Compare muscle and Latin mūsculus; muscular and mūsculāris.


nuclear

The growth in wind capacity at first lagged behind the expansion of nuclear installations, but then it started to grow faster and is now outpacing nuclear.

2015, Vital Signs Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, The Worldwatch Institute:

Admiral Burke believed that we would be able to beat off an amphibious attack, even if staged in conjunction with heavy aerial bombing, long enough to refer back to Washington and obtain authorization to use nuclears.

1958, Foreign Relations of the United States (page 118):

en-noun

nuclear (countable and uncountable, plural nuclears)


nuclear

head

nuclear m (feminine singular nucleara, masculine plural nuclears, feminine plural nuclearas)

nucleara (feminine singular)
nuclears (masculine plural)
nuclearas (feminine plural)


nuclear

nuclear; central (to a centre around which something is developed or organised)

(biology) nuclear (relating to the nucleus of cells)

(physics) nuclear (relating to the nucleus of atoms)

nuclear (involving atomic energy or weapons)


nuclear

ro-adj

nuclear m or n (feminine singular nucleară, masculine plural nucleari, feminine and neuter plural nucleare)

nucleară (feminine singular)
nucleari (masculine plural)
nucleare (feminine neuter plural)
nuclear (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
nucleară (feminine indefinite singular)
nucleari (indefinite masculine plural)
nucleare (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
nuclearul (definite masculine neuter singular)
nucleara (definite feminine singular)
nuclearii (definite masculine plural)
nuclearele (definite feminine neuter plural)
nucleare (feminine indefinite singular)
nuclearului (definite masculine neuter singular)
nuclearei (definite feminine singular)
nuclearilor (definite masculine plural)
nuclearelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French nucléaire. By surface analysis, nucleu + -ar.


nuclear

es-adj

nuclear m or f (masculine and feminine plural nucleares)

From nucleo + -ar, ultimately from Latin nuculeus.


nuclear

es-verb

nuclear (first-person singular present nucleo, first-person singular preterite nucleé, past participle nucleado)

nucleo (first-person present singular)
nucleé (first-person preterite singular)
nucleado (participle past)
nuclear (infinitive)
nucleando (gerund)
nucleado (masculine participle past singular)
nucleada (feminine participle past singular)
nucleados (masculine participle past plural)
nucleadas (feminine participle past plural)
nucleo (first-person indicative present singular)
nucleas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
nucleás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
nuclea (indicative present singular third-person)
nucleamos (first-person indicative plural present)
nucleáis (indicative plural present second-person)
nuclean (indicative plural present third-person)
nucleaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
nucleabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
nucleaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nucleábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
nucleabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
nucleaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
nucleé (first-person indicative preterite singular)
nucleaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
nucleó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nucleamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
nucleasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
nuclearon (indicative plural preterite third-person)
nuclearé (first-person future indicative singular)
nuclearás (future indicative second-person singular)
nucleará (future indicative singular third-person)
nuclearemos (first-person future indicative plural)
nuclearéis (future indicative plural second-person)
nuclearán (future indicative plural third-person)
nuclearía (conditional first-person indicative singular)
nuclearías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
nuclearía (conditional indicative singular third-person)
nuclearíamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
nuclearíais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
nuclearían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
nuclee (first-person present singular subjunctive)
nuclees (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
nucleés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
nuclee (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nucleemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
nucleéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
nucleen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
nucleara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
nuclearas (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
nucleara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nucleáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
nuclearais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
nuclearan (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
nuclease (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
nucleases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
nuclease (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
nucleásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
nucleaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
nucleasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
nucleare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
nucleares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
nucleare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
nucleáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
nucleareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
nuclearen (future plural subjunctive third-person)
nuclea (imperative informal second-person singular)
nucleá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
nuclee (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
nuclee (imperative singular third-person)
nucleemos (first-person imperative plural)
nuclead (imperative plural second-person)
nucleen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
nucleen (imperative plural third-person)
nuclees (imperative negative second-person singular)
nuclee (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
nuclee (imperative negative singular third-person)
nucleemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
nucleéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
nucleen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
nucleen (imperative negative plural third-person)
nuclearme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
nuclearte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
nuclearle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
nuclearse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
nuclearnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
nuclearos (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
nuclearles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
nuclearse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
nuclearme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
nuclearte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
nuclearlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
nuclearla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
nuclearse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
nuclearnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
nuclearos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
nuclearlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
nuclearlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
nuclearse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
nucleándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
nucleándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
nucleándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
nucleándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
nucleándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
nucleándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
nucleándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
nucleándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
nucleándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
nucleándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
nucleándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
nucleándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
nucleándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
nucleándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
nucleándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
nucleándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
nucleándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
nucleándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
nucléame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
nucléate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
nucléale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucléanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
nucléales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucléame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
nucléate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
nucléalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucléala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucléanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
nucléalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucléalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
nucleame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
nucleate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
nucleale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
nucleanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
nucleales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
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nucleate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
nuclealo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
nucleala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
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nucléeme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
nucléele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
nucléese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
nucléenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
nucléeles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
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nucléelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
nucléela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
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nucleémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
nucleémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
nucleémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
nucleémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
nucleémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
nucleémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
nucleémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
nucleémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
nucleémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
nucleémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
nucleémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
nucleémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
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nucleadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
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nucleadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
nucleadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
nucléenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
nucléenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
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nucléenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
nucléenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
nucléense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)