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/pree nooh"klee euhr, -nyooh"-/ or, by metathesis, /-kyeuh leuhr/, adj.of or pertaining to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.[1950-55; PRE- + NUCLEAR]Pronunciation. See nuclear.
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