All 20 Uses
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- Case in point: After a certain Kourier tipped him off to the existence of Vitaly Chernobyl, he put a few intensive weeks into researching a new musical phenomenon-the rise of Ukrainian nuclear fuzzgrunge collectives in L.A. He has planted exhaustive notes on this trend in the Library, including video and audio.†
Chpt 3-4nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- Thrashers and nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives thrive in the same environment.†
Chpt 13-14
- It's not a good idea to declare war on a nuclear power.†
Chpt 19-20
- A nuclear torpedo.†
Chpt 19-20
- It comes to a stop in front of an STD device, straddling an open pit where EBGOC boys stand with dogs and high-powered spotlights to look up its skirt for bombs or NBCI (nuclear-biological-chemical-informational) agents in the undercarriage.†
Chpt 21-22
- Snow Crash penetrates the walls of brain cells and goes to the nucleus where the DNA is stored.†
Chpt 31-32nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
- They can go deep inside the cell, into the nucleus, and actually change the way the cell functions.†
Chpt 31-32
- And then it does something to the nucleus of the cell.†
Chpt 33-34
- But Raven's nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach.†
Chpt 35-36nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- There was a Soviet nuclear-missile submarine.†
Chpt 39-40
- I mean, if he had been a fanatic they wouldn't have given him command of a nuclear-missile submarine, right?†
Chpt 39-40
- Well, Raven got onto that nuclear submarine.†
Chpt 39-40
- The nucleus around which it formed.†
Chpt 45-46nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
- A nuclear-missile submarine.†
Chpt 45-46nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- The crew of the Kowloon has already sized up the situation and placed their bets on the nuclear submarine.†
Chpt 45-46 *
- Neither Hiro nor Eliot ever mentions, or even notices, the by-now-obvious fact that Fisheye is traveling with a small, self-contained nuclear power source-almost certainly radiothermal isotopes like the ones that power the Rat Thing.†
Chpt 47-48
- As he waves the gun back and forth, hosing the target down with a hypersonic shower of depleted uranium, Bruce Lee's entire ship seems to sparkle and glitter, as though Tinkerbell was flying back and forth from stem to stern, sprinkling nuclear fairy dust over it.†
Chpt 49-50
- But every nuclear power has one aboriginal group whose territory they nuked to test their weapons.†
Chpt 49-50
- "You know," Ng says, apparently in a conversational mood, "there's a guy who actually took over a nuclear-missile submarine armed with nothing more than a piece of glass—"†
Chpt 55-56
- The Asherah virus, which may be related to herpes, or they may be one and the same, passes through the cell walls and goes to the nucleus and messes with the cell's DNA in the same way that steroids do.†
Chpt 55-56nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
Definitions:
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(1)
(nucleus) the center (or most important part) of somethingsuch as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)