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The pit , named after the hard core found in fruits such as peaches and apricots , is the core of an implosion nuclear weapon – the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it. Some weapons tested during the 1950s used pits made with ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a well, pit.] A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation; specifically: The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. A large ...
Usage examples of pit.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
Lots and lots of pits and craters in his cheeks, from terrible acne when he was young.
A little mouth, a delicate little nose, and a face pitted and scarred by the acne of his youth.
Entering the lodge, Aganippe lay down beside the glowing stones piled in a central pit.
In the background, they could see Akers hop-skipping toward the tripod-and-wrench arrangement above the pit.
Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.
Grinning fiercely and showering each other with blistering insults, they battled around the confines of the cave, leaping over the fire pit and threatening to trample Alec underfoot until he wisely retreated to the narrow crevice at the back.
Alemans were trying to drive them into the alkahest pits still bubbling from the First Sorcerous War.
A huge crack opened in the floor, and Toth and Ament dropped into the pit and disappeared.
But none of us had ever encountered, even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.
According to both Amnesty International and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups of prisoners suspected of anti-government sentiments were taken from detention camps, machine-gunned en masse, and then dumped into pre-dug pits that were covered with earth and left unmarked.
They located two roads, neither passable by now, one track leading to a shallow pit where many tons of apatite had been removed.
Up its three steps, the bridge plunged away into an echoing, aphotic pit.
He tried to slug the apish Monk in the pit of the stomach, and the sound was much as if his knuckles had rapped a hard wall.