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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or located within the nucleus of an atom; smaller than the nucleus.

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  • adjective physics Smaller than a nucleus of an atom

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Examples

  • "We have stood down the experiment site and the workforce that was preparing the site for the experiment," read the dry, tersely worded statement issued by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency last week, referring to the "subnuclear" blast known as Divine Strake, initially slated to go off in early June at the Nevada Test Site and twice-postponed because of local uproar and environmental challenges.

    Smiling Buddha 2006

  • Some years ago, you ran an article called "Paradigm Shifty Things" which mentioned a company named "Blacklight Power" (blacklightpower. com) who claimed to have a process using "subnuclear" reactions to generate heat, using hydrogen obtained from electrolyzing water, plus a catalyst (argon with a trace of oxygen).

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Dr. Hagelin: Modern science has probed deeper levels of nature's functioning, from the macroscopic world of classical physics to the world of the atom, then to the underlying nucleus and the subnuclear.

    Jeanne Ball: 9/11: Have We Overlooked the Most Effective Way to Prevent Terrorism and War? Jeanne Ball 2011

  • However, our technique focuses on the massless, subnuclear particles and interactions, such as gluons, neutrinos, and hyperphotons.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • Dr. Hagelin: Modern science has probed deeper levels of nature's functioning, from the macroscopic world of classical physics to the world of the atom, then to the underlying nucleus and the subnuclear.

    Jeanne Ball: 9/11: Have We Overlooked the Most Effective Way to Prevent Terrorism and War? Jeanne Ball 2011

  • Modern science has probed deeper levels of nature's functioning, from the macroscopic world of classical physics to the world of the atom, then to the underlying field of the atomic nucleus, and then to the subnuclear levels.

    Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: A Complementary Protective Approach for Israel 2010

  • As the lead attorney in a lawsuit filed last year against the Pentagon and other government agencies that ultimately resulted in the cancellation of a subnuclear blast, code-named Divine Strake, at the Nevada Test Site — which would have been the first aboveground explosion (and the first mushroom cloud) at the site since 1962 — Hager in fact knows as much about “who these people are” as anyone.

    Used Razor Blades 2007

  • Although accelerators were further developed, cosmic radiation continued for a couple of decades to be the main source of very energetic particles (and still surpasses the most powerful accelerators on earth in this aspect, although with extremely low intensities), and it provided the first glimpses of a completely unknown subnuclear world.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • There is no pure hyper because it's polluted by leakover of time, gravity, and subnuclear matter, though the matter is not really matter in that state.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • One common fiction is to picture hyperspace as a negative image of the universe we see, inhabited by such woolly beasts as - c, contra-charged subnuclear binding energies, and anti-gravitons and anti-chronons.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

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