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conning towers
n. (conning tower English)
Gazetteer
Conning Towers-Nautilus Park, CT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Connecticut
Population (2000): 10241
Housing Units (2000): 2822
Land area (2000): 4.983105 sq. miles (12.906182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.611310 sq. miles (1.583286 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.594415 sq. miles (14.489468 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16960
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.383198 N, 72.072873 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Housing Units (2000): 2822
Land area (2000): 4.983105 sq. miles (12.906182 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.611310 sq. miles (1.583286 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.594415 sq. miles (14.489468 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16960
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.383198 N, 72.072873 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Conning Towers-Nautilus Park, CT
Conning Towers-Nautilus Park
Conning Towers, CT
Conning Towers
Conning Towers-Nautilus Park
Conning Towers, CT
Conning Towers
Usage examples of "conning towers".
Owing to the limited movement from the conning towers, they were for the moment evenly matched.
There were scores of submarines, their smooth black backs awash almost to the conning towers.
But it was vaster than any shark, vaster than any whale - and neither sharks nor whales evolved with conning towers on their backs.
But they were promptly dive-bombed in warning before their conning towers were awash.
To someone of an earlier day, the giant battlecruisers would have resembled prenuclear submarines, complete with conning towers, and bulky thruster packages attached to their sterns.
The captains stood calmly and stoically on their conning towers and saluted the pilots who blew them into history.