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PRONUNCIATION OF DOOMSDAY CLOCK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOOMSDAY CLOCK

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exclamation
Doomsday clock is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DOOMSDAY CLOCK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock is a universally-recognized symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible political related global catastrophe. It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who are in turn advised by the Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Laureates. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the scientists believe the world is to the global disaster. Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in a Bulletin's office in the University of Chicago, represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity. The most recent officially announced setting—five minutes to midnight —was made on January 14, 2014.

Definition of doomsday clock in the English dictionary

The definition of doomsday clock in the dictionary is an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOOMSDAY CLOCK

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doom palm
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doom-monger
doomed
doomful
doomfully
doomily
doomsayer
doomsday
Doomsday Book
doomsday cult
doomsman
doomster
doomwatch
doomy
doon
doona
door
door chain

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOOMSDAY CLOCK

against the clock
alarm clock
around the clock
biological clock
block
body clock
clock
digital clock
eight o´clock
grandfather clock
clock
overclock
radio alarm clock
round-the-clock
six o´clock
ten o´clock
the clock
three o´clock
time clock
two o´clock
water clock

Synonyms and antonyms of doomsday clock in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «doomsday clock» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOOMSDAY CLOCK

Find out the translation of doomsday clock to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of doomsday clock from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «doomsday clock» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

末日时钟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reloj del juicio final
570 millions of speakers

English

doomsday clock
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रलय का दिन घड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ساعة يوم القيامة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

часы Судного дня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

relógio do Juízo Final
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শেষবিচারের দিন ঘড়ি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

doomsday clock
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jam kiamat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weltuntergangs- Uhr
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

運命の時計
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

종말의 시계
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jam kiamat
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng hồ ngày tận thế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டூம்ஸ்டே கடிகாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जगाचा शेवट घड्याळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kıyamet saati
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Doomsday Clock
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zegar zagłady
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

годинник Судного дня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ceas apocaliptic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρολόι Ημέρας της Κρίσεως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doem klok
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

doomsday klocka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dommedagsklokken
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of doomsday clock

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOOMSDAY CLOCK»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOOMSDAY CLOCK» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOOMSDAY CLOCK»

Discover the use of doomsday clock in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to doomsday clock and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
From Daniel to Doomsday: The Countdown Has Begun
John Hagee says, "The world as we know it will end, neither with a bang nor a whimper, but in stages clearly set forth in God's Word.
John Hagee, 2000
2
Doomsday: Iran - the Clock Is Ticking
This book seeks to give the reader a comprehensive understanding of the Iranian leadership s mindset as it has played out and continues to play out on a wide range of issues how it worked to implement Islamist doctrine into Iran s ...
James G. Zumwalt, 2012
3
Voyages in World History
In 1947 the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists devised the Doomsday Clock as a visual guide to the nuclear threat. The original setting was seven minutes to midnight. The clock, which has appeared on the cover of every  ...
Valerie Hansen, Kenneth Curtis, 2008
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Articles on Political Symbols, Including: Swastika, Doomsday ...
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Hephaestus Books, 2011
5
Weekly World News
Professor Joseph Rotblat holds copy of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with the Doomsday clock on its cover. 'Doomsday clock' is ticking away, scientists warn The world's "Doomsday clock" stands just four minutes away from nuclear ...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The best "known symbol of the Nuclear Age— the Bulletin's "Doomsday Clock"— had a hard-to-ignore debut. Early Bulletins were newsletters, lacking magazine- style covers. But when the June 1947 Bulletin arrived, it had a first-ever cover ...
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An Interesting View on Doomsday Including Doomsday Cult, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Laura Vermon, 2012
8
US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday
Al Gore equally offered his own ticking doomsday clock in An Inconvenient Truth, noting 'We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail— spin'. Both Gore and the Bulletin sold environmental ...
John Wills, 2013
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
So the Doomsday Clock has been turned back to 11:43 p.m. I'm happy to hear that the clock was moved back so far. It takes a load off my mind knowing that I now have 17 rather than 10 minutes before being vaporized in an atomic blast. I'll be ...
10
Military Spending, the Peace Dividend, and Fiscal Adjustment
B. The Structural Model The structural model (equations 11 and 12) is estimated using the two different measures of international tensions: the Doomsday Clock and number of nuclear explosions. Regressions are estimated on demeaned ...
Benedict J. Clements, Hamid Reza Davoodi, Jerald Alan Schiff, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOOMSDAY CLOCK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term doomsday clock is used in the context of the following news items.
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Alexander Gillespie: Ship's bombing galvanised Kiwis
The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which was at three minutes to midnight in 1985, is back at three minutes to midnight in ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
2
Russia, Ukraine and US Hegemony
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists this year advanced the Doomsday Clock warning of human extinction to three minutes before midnight ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
3
The Globalists Are Racing to World War III Before the American …
as they insanely dance to the tune of Barry Maguire's “Eve of Destruction” just as the doomsday clock strikes one minute tomidnight. Joachim ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
4
Climate Change versus the Dangers of Nuclear War. “Three Minutes …
Climate change and nuclear war are now presented side by side in the BAS' doomsday clock. Nuclear war is no longer the main threat. «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Liberal MP Warren Entsch unfazed by internal same-sex marriage …
We're not running against a timetable, there's no doomsday clock." Prime Minister Tony Abbott is opposed to same-sex marriage, but in May ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
6
Green Pope Goes Medieval on Planet
Yet these triumphs are not seen as sources of inspiration by a movement that seems to live off pointing to a doomsday clock. It is dubious that ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
7
The Story Of Nukes, Visualized
Not according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who set the world's symbolic Doomsday Clock earlier this year to just three minutes until ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
8
Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America's «Chaos» versus …
The Doomsday Clock, which represents a countdown to a world catastrophe, is closer to midnight than it was during much of the Cold War ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
9
Fight the future – a review of Terminator Genisys
It's all in there: time travel, alternate realities, a teeth-grinding love story, and — a personal favourite — the doomsday clock, which serves to ... «kawarthaNOW.com, Jul 15»
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Three minutes from apocalypse?
Doomsday clock: minutes to midnight, 1945 - 2015.Wikicommons/Fastfission. Some rights reserved.At the very point of origin of the cold war, ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»

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