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  1. Nautilus
    The Nautilus was a Dutch fishery protection vessel of 800 tons displacement launched in 1929. The Nautilus was powered by oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 14 knots and carried a complement of 50. She was variously armed with two 3 inch guns; one 37 mm gun and two 40mm anti-aircraft guns and was equipped for mine laying.
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  2. nautilus
    [n] - a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
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  3. Nautilus
    Iso kinetic-type exercise machine which attempts to match resistance with user's force.
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  4. Nautilus
    Iso kinetic-type exercise machine which attempts to match resistance with user's force.
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  5. Nautilus
    Nau'ti·lus noun ; plural English Nautiluses , Latin Nautili . [ Latin , from Greek nayti`los a seaman, sailor, a kind of shellfish which was supposed to be furnished with a membrane which served as a sail; from nay^...
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  6. nautilus
    Origin: L, fr. Gr. A seaman, sailor, a kind of shellfish which was supposed to be furnished with a membrane which served as a sail; fr. Ship. See Nave of a church. ... 1. <zoology> The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacif...
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  7. nautilus
    nuclear submarine noun a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
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  8. Nautilus
    • (n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper. • (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants. • (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About ...
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  9. nautilus
    either of two genera of cephalopod mollusks: the pearly, or chambered, nautilus (Nautilus), to which the name properly applies; and the paper ... [7 related articles]
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  10. Nautilus
    any of at least three historic submarines (including the world`s first nuclear-powered vessel) and a fourth submarine famous in science fiction.[6 related articles]
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  11. Nautilus
    Nautilus 1. The first nuclear-powered submarine launched by the U.S. Navy. 2. A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power (nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine). 3. A cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells (paper nautilus). 4. A cephalopod of t...
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  12. nautilus
    • a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
    • cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
    • cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

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  13. nautilus
    nautilus, cephalopodmollusk belonging to the sole surviving genus (Nautilus) of a subclass that flourished 200 million years ago, known as the nautiloids. The spirally coiled shell consists of a series of chambers; as the nautilus grows it secretes larger chambers, sealing off the old ones with thin...
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  14. Nautilus
    Nautilus: see submarine.
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  15. Nautilus
    The nautilus is a shelled cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The pearly nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) has a chambered spiral shell about 20cm in diameter. Its body occupies the outer chamber. The nautilus has a large number of short, grasping tentacles surround...
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  16. nautilus
    Sea animal related to octopuses and squids, with many short, grasping tentacles surrounding a sharp beak, but different in that it has an outer shell. It is a cephalopod, a type of mollusc, and is found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The well-known pearly nautilus (N. pompilius) has a chambered spiral shell about 20 cm/...
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  17. Nautilus
    (file manager) `Nautilus` is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was the default from version 2.0 onwards. Nautilus was the f...
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  18. Nautilus
    `Nautilus` (from Greek ναυτίλος, `sailor`) is the common name of marine creatures of cephalopod family `Nautilidae`, the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in two g...
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  19. Nautilus
    (Verne) The `Nautilus` is the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne`s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton`s real-life submarine date=July 2011-->. Three years befor...
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  20. Nautilus
    (genus) `Nautilus` is a genus of cephalopods in the family Nautilidae. Species in this genus differ significantly in terms of morphology from those placed in the sister taxon Allonautilus. The oldest fossils of the genus are known from the Late Eocene Hoko River Formation, in Wa...
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  21. Nautilus
    (secure telephone) `Nautilus` is a program which allows two parties to securely communicate using modems or TCP/IP. It runs from a command line and is available for the Linux and Windows operating systems. The name was based upon Jules Verne`s Nautilus and its ability to overcome a Clipper sh...
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  22. Nautilus
    (video game) `Nautilus` is a 1982 computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created by Mike Potter and distributed by Synapse Software. The players control a submarine, the Nautilus, or a destroyer, the Colossus, attempting to either destroy or rebuild an underwater city. ...
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  23. Nautilus
    (counterculture publisher) `Nautilus` is an Italian publisher based in Turin. Started in 1981, it is linked with Autonomism. One of its most prestigious publications is the translation, by scholar Mario Lippolis, of the complete collection of the issues of the Situationist International. It s...
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  24. Nautilus
    (Miami Beach) `Nautilus` is a neighborhood within the City of Miami Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is located in the center portion of the main island that the city occupies. It is bounded by the Surprise Waterway to the north, Arthur Godfrey Road to the south, Biscayn...
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  25. Nautilus
    (photograph) `Nautilus` is black-and-white photograph taken by Edward Weston in 1927 of a single nautilus shell standing on its end against a dark background. It has been called "one of the most famous photographs ever made" and "a benchmark of modernism in the history of photo...
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