nuclearlyadv.
/ˈnjuːklɪəli/, U.S. /ˈn(j)ukliərli/ 1. gen. In a nuclear manner; as or around a central nucleus. rare.
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1929 J. D. Bernal World, Flesh, & Devil v. 75 One may picture then, these beings, nuclearly resident, so to speak, in a relatively small set of mental units.., connected together by a complex of etherial intercommunication.
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a. As regards or by means of atomic nuclei or their fission or fusion.
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1948 Electr. Engin. (U.S.) 67 229/2 Why, then, does not ordinary uranium explode, or at least ‘burn nuclearly’?
1969 Science 12 Sept. 1073/1 A similar problem faced the physics community when the muon was found to be so inert, nuclearly.
1974 M. J. Kelly et al. in Peaceful Nucl. Explosions (Internat. Atomic Energy Agency) III. 343 (heading) The relative risks from radionuclides found in nuclearly stimulated natural gas.
1988 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 82 648/2 The price of nuclearly produced electricity is no longer competitive with coal.
b. With or in relation to nuclear weapons; esp. in nuclearly armed.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [adverb] > with nuclear weapons
nuclearly1957
1957 Background World Politics 1 42 The USSR will not disarm nuclearly.
1977 H. S. Albinski Austral. External Policy under Labor vii. 256 Its principal objective was communication with submarines, including with nuclearly armed boats operating in the Indian Ocean.
1984 P. K. Ghosh Disarmament & Devel. 240 All that is required is the acquiescence to the [nuclear-weapon-free] concept of a sufficient number of nuclearly-capable states in an area.
1991 A. Bandura in W. M. Kurtines & J. L. Gewirtz Handbk. Moral Behavior & Devel. I. i. 78 As long as some nations refuse to part with their bombs, others insist on remaining nuclearly armed to deter nuclear threats.
3. Biology. In or into a cell nucleus; as regards or by means of the cell nucleus.
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1958 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 148 356 The three kinds of perithecia that result from crosses between nuclearly marked ‘A’ and ‘B’ cultures..all contain ascospores that segregate for ‘A–B’.
1972 Canad. Jrnl. Microbiol. 18 1 (heading) The effect of the suppressive factor on nuclearly and cytoplasmically inherited chloramphenicol resistance in S. cerevisiae.
1984 Current Genetics 8 489/1 There is strong biochemical and genetic evidence that this subunit is in fact nuclearly-encoded.
2001 Molecular & Cell Biol. 21 4985 We have identified smu-1 molecularly; it encodes a nuclearly localized protein.
4. Linguistics. As or in a nucleus; in relation to a nucleus (see nucleus n. 12).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adverb] > syllable > most prominent syllable
nuclearly1966
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adverb] > with accent > stress with respect to group
pretonically1930
nuclearly1966
1966 J. E. Buse in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 56 Statives..also occur nuclearly in the verbal phrase.
1995 S. Bentin & R. Frost in L. B. Feldman Morphol. Aspects Lang. Processing xii. 272 Other models suggest that morphologically complex words are respresented by separate and complete lexical entries which can be directly addressed and are nuclearly organized around a nominative.
5. Sociology. In relation to or in the manner of a nuclear family.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adverb]
familially1932
nuclearly1983
1983 C. E. Obudho Black Marriage & Family Therapy xv. 251 We have nuclearly aligned family structures, but may rely heavily on our extended families as well.
1995 J. A. Chambers Blacks & Crime iv. 67 All of the social pathologies would disappear if the family structure once again became intact nuclearly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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