battleship
Noun
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Noun
battleship (plural battleships)
- (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.
- Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
- A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)
- battlecruiser
- French: cuirassé
- German: Schlachtschiff. Schlachtschiff is used for dreadnought battleships, Linienschiff is used for pre-dreadnought battleships.
- Italian: corazzata, nave corazzata
- Portuguese: couraçado, encouraçado
- Age of Sail: лине́йный кора́бль
- dreadnoughts and later designs: лине́йный кора́бль
- pre-dreadnought designs: бронено́сец
- Spanish: acorazado
- French: bataille navale
- German: Schiffe versenken
- Italian: battaglia navale
- Portuguese: batalha naval
- Russian: морско́й бой
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