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What is a battleship?

What is a battleship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.
  2. Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
  3. A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)
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A television programme recreating the sinking of the Second World War battleship, Royal Oak, was broadcast on Grampian TV on Friday night.
A situation might call for an Arclite barrage from a division of siege tanks or a deadly battleship salvo of a targeted area.
Yamamoto saw the aircraft carrier as supporting the battleship rather than the other way round.
They also learnt the lesson that the aircraft carrier rather than the battleship was to be crucial to victory in naval warfare.
This is a legacy of the Second World War, in which the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the capital ship of fleets.
The grim battle in the twilight of the Arctic Circle was the last time men of the Royal Navy faced the enemy in a battleship.

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