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small arms

(Encyclopedia)small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Automatic small arms were develope...

nuclear weapons

(Encyclopedia)nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction powered by atomic, rather than chemical, processes. Nuclear weapons produce large explosions and hazardous radioactive byproducts by means of either nuclea...

automatic pilot

(Encyclopedia)automatic pilot: see air navigation. ...

small intestine

(Encyclopedia)small intestine: see intestine.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

(Encyclopedia)International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), worldwide organization of medical groups dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons and preventing nuclear war, est. 1980. Based in Ca...

automatic direction finder

(Encyclopedia)automatic direction finder: see radio range. ...

automatic frequency control

(Encyclopedia)automatic frequency control: see automatic tuning control. ...

automatic tuning control

(Encyclopedia)automatic tuning control (ATC), method or device to keep a radio or television receiver automatically tuned to a desired frequency or channel. Assuming that the receiver is at least approximately tune...

Small, Albion Woodbury

(Encyclopedia)Small, Albion Woodbury, 1854–1926, American sociologist, b. Buckfield, Maine, grad. Colby College, 1876, and further educated in Germany. He was made president of Colby in 1889, but left it in 1892 ...

Small Magellanic Cloud

(Encyclopedia)Small Magellanic Cloud: see Magellanic Clouds. ...