decommissioned
退役的,退役,已退役,已退役的
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- : to remove or retire from active service.
- : to deactivate; shut down: to decommission a nuclear power plant.
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The US National Science Foundation has just announced it is going to begin decommissioning the famous Arecibo Observatory, the 1,000-foot-wide, 900-ton radio telescope located in Puerto Rico.
Since 2013, when regulators finally decided to shut SONGS down for good, teams of scientists, engineers, and policymakers have been hard at work to make sure it could be safely decommissioned.
In 2019, before it was decommissioned, I was in a group of 20 researchers who were given access to use it for calculations.
On Thursday night, two decommissioned spacecraft could collide, spraying dangerous space junk across the sky.
Additionally, about a dozen high-speed mail-sorting machines were decommissioned from the processing plant that serves large swaths of the state, union officials said.
Unfortunately, they were decommissioned when it was shown that, like humans, the DRNs have a bit of a breaking point.
The Caine is finally decommissioned in the fall of 1945, after steaming its broken-down way home from Okinawa.
There are only 11, and that number will go down to 10 this year when the USS Enterprise is decommissioned after 50 years.
Such descriptions exert a hypnotic pull—and a climactic chapter in the decommissioned city hall station is a showstopper.