Ban-the-bomber
a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
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an island in the W central Pacific Ocean, in the Gilbert Islands group of Kiribati. Historical Examples It is somewhat inferior to Banaba, but supplies its place when Banaba is scarce. The Philippine Islands John Foreman noun an island in the SW Pacific, in the Republic of Kiribati. Phosphates were mined by Britain (1900–79). Area: […]
- Banaban
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- Banach algebra
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- Banach inverse mapping theorem
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- Banach space
a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete. mathematics A complete normed vector space. Metric is induced by the norm: d(x,y) = ||x-y||. Completeness means that every Cauchy sequence converges to an element of the space. All finite-dimensional real and complex normed vector spaces are complete and thus are Banach spaces. […]