• n.
    ⦿the use of a nuclear reactor either to produce electricity to power an engine (as in a nuclear submarine) or to directly heat a propellant (as in nuclear rockets)

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:nuclear propulsion
wn:interlingual indexili:i97967

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelnuclear propulsion