Euratom

[yoo-rat-uhm, yuh-, yoor-at-, yur-]

Eur·at·om

[yoo-rat-uhm, yuh-, yoor-at-, yur-]
noun
an organization formed in 1957, comprising France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany, for coordinated action in developing and marketing their nuclear resources.
Also, EURATOM


Origin:
Eur(opean) Atom(ic Energy Community)
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Euratom is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Euratom (jʊəˈrætəm)
 
n
short for European Atomic Energy Community; an authority established by the European Economic Community (now the European Union) to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy

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EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community
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