Naval Surface Warfare Center
- proper noun
- Formal
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Centro de Guerra Superficial Naval
- Engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center are developing advanced technologies to improve ship systems.
Examples
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center conducts essential research to enhance the Navy's capabilities in maritime defense.
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Today, Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, and a few pals at Indiana University reveal an entirely new class of 'visual malware' capable of recording and reconstructing a user's environment in 3D.
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The US Naval Surface Warfare Center has created an Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as a 3D virtual model for a malicious user to browse.
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center collaborates with various universities to innovate in naval engineering.
Synonyms
A US Navy center that gives science and engineering help for ships and equipment
Surface Forms
Morphology
naval + surface + warfare + center
The meaning is directly compositional: 'naval' (relating to the navy) + 'surface warfare' (war conducted on the surface, i.e., ship/surface operations) + 'center' (a place or organization) yields an agency responsible for surface-warfare matters. Although it is a specialized proper name for a U.S. agency, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer its general function.
Etymology
Naval Surface Warfare Center is a literal name made of four parts: naval (about ships), surface (the part of the sea where ships sail), warfare (fighting), and center (a place where people work). So it refers to a U.S. organization that 'supports' the Navy with science and engineering for surface ships and their weapons.
