nuclear-powered ship

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   ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor

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Questions about nuclear-powered ship

What does nuclear-powered ship mean?

nuclear-powered ship means "ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor".

Is nuclear-powered ship a common word?

nuclear-powered ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.