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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nucleal \Nu"cle*al\, Nuclear \Nu"cle*ar\, a.
Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as the nuclear spindle (see
Illust. of {Karyokinesis}) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell;
the nuclear part of a comet, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
nuclear
adj 1: (of power and warfare and weaponry) using atomic energy;
"nuclear (or atomic) submarines"; "nuclear war";
"nuclear weapons"; "atomic bombs" [syn: {atomic}]
[ant: {conventional}]
2: (physics) "nuclear physics"; "nuclear fission"; "nuclear
forces"
3: (biology) "nuclear membrane"
4: constituting or like a nucleus; "annexation of the suburban
fringe by the nuclear metropolis"; "the nuclear core of
the congregation"
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