Secretary of Energy Energy Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Energy, the post of Energy Secretary was created in |
mission charge commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group, a confidential mission to London, his charge was deliver a message |
waste of effort waste of energy | a useless effort |
perpetration commission committal | the act of committing a crime |
commission commissioning | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions |
atom bomb atomic bomb A-bomb fission bomb plutonium bomb | a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium or plutonium ) |
atomic clock | a timepiece that derives its time scale from the vibration of atoms or molecules |
atomic cocktail | an oral dose of radioactive substance used in treatment and diagnosis of cancer |
atomic pile atomic reactor pile chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
atomic warhead nuclear warhead thermonuclear warhead nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
nuclear weapon atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
wind farm wind park wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
energy muscularity vigor vigour vim | an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing), his writing conveys great energy, a remarkable muscularity of style |
energy push get-up-and-go | enterprising or ambitious drive, Europeans often laugh at American energy |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
energy vigor vigour zip | forceful exertion, he plays tennis with great energy, he's full of zip |
mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
nuclear physics atomic physics nucleonics | the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
atomism atomic theory atomist theory atomistic theory | (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles, the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe |
atomic theory | a theory of the structure of the atom |
conservation of energy law of conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
commission military commission | an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces |
commission charge direction | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something, the judge's charge to the jury |
nuclear explosion atomic explosion | the explosion of an atomic bomb |
National Liberation Army ELN Nestor Paz Zamora Commission CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
Atomic Energy Commission AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
Interstate Commerce Commission ICC | a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states, was terminated in , the ICC was established in as the first federal agency |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Department of Energy Energy Department Energy DOE | the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States, created in |
Department of Energy Intelligence DOEI | an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community |
Federal Communications Commission FCC | an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite |
commission plan | a municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
Commission on Human Rights | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights |
Commission on Narcotic Drugs | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with drug traffic |
Commission on the Status of Women | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies |
Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |
Economic Commission for Latin America | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America |
Population Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with population control |
Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
Statistical Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with statistical data from member nations |
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
blue ribbon commission blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |