ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atomic Energy Commission mean? 

• ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States

  Familiarity information: ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

AEC; Atomic Energy Commission

Hypernyms ("Atomic Energy Commission" is a kind of...):

executive agency (an agency of the executive branch of government)

Holonyms ("Atomic Energy Commission" is a part of...):

executive branch; Executive Office of the President (the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws)