test-ban agreement
1test ban — test ,ban noun count an agreement between countries not to test nuclear weapons: a nuclear test ban a test ban treaty …
2test ban — n an agreement between countries to stop testing ↑nuclear weapons ▪ the test ban treaty …
3test ban — test ban, adj. an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere. [1955 60] * * * …
4test ban — test′ ban n. an agreement by nations producing nuclear weapons to refrain from testing them in the atmosphere • Etymology: 1955–60 …
5test ban — n. an agreement between or among nuclear powers to forgo tests of nuclear weapons, esp. in the atmosphere …
6test ban — noun a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons that is mutually agreed to by countries that possess nuclear weapons • Hypernyms: ↑ban, ↑banning, ↑forbiddance, ↑forbidding * * * noun : a self imposed ban on the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons …
7test ban — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms test ban : singular test ban plural test bans an agreement between countries not to test nuclear weapons …
8test ban — /ˈtɛst bæn/ (say test ban) adjective denoting or relating to a treaty or agreement between nations not to test nuclear weapons, or to test them only under limited conditions, as not in the atmosphere …
9Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty — 7 October 1963 President Kennedy signs the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the Treaty Room at the White House. L R: William Hopkins, Sen. Mike Mansfield, John J. McCloy, Adrian S. Fisher, Sen. John Pastore, W. Averell Harriman, Sen. George… …
10Partial Test Ban Treaty — The Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water, often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT) (although the latter also refers …
