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plural battleships
(military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role examples
(military, nautical, archaic) A ship of the line.
A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests. examples
A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game). examples