| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Like an amphibious being.[Websters]
2. In a hybrid manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective amphibious.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (amphibious) | 1. Relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia.[Wordnet]. 2. Operating or living on land and in water; "amphibious vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops"; "frogs are amphibious animals".[Wordnet]. 3. Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.[Websters]. 4. Pertaining to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water.[Websters]. 5. Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures.[Websters]. 6. Being amorphous, fuzzy or vague.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being hybrid.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Adjective base of the adverb amphibiously.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "AMPHIBIOUSLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: amphibious
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | (Biology) (1) Living or able to live both on land and in water. (2) Able to operate both on land and in water. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: amphibious
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Advanced Amphibious Aircraft | Advanced Amphibious Aircraft (AAA) was formed in 1988 as a joint venture between Dornier and Alenia to develop and manufacture a modern amphibious aircraft. By 1993, HAI, Per Udsen, and SOKO had also joined the group. (references) | ||
| Amphibious aircraft | An airplane designed to take off and land on water. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious aircraft | An amphibious or amphibian aircraft is an aircraft that can land on either land or water. This has the obvious advantage of flexibility, but incurs great penalties as well: The aircraft will have to handle the extra drag, and weight, of the hull-shaped fuselage, or the floats (see seaplane), and the associated hardware, plus the weight of the landing gear (which normally is retractable, or, on smaller aircraft, semi-retractable). This leads in turn to the use of bigger, more powerful, engine(s) than comparable land aircraft, which in turn escalates weights and/or reduces range. (references) | ||
| Amphibious assault | An amphibious operation attacking a land base that is carried out by troops that are landed by naval ships. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious Assault Vehicle | The Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV)—official designation AAV-7A1 (formerly known as LVT-7) is the current amphibious troop transport of the United States Marine Corps and is also operated by other forces. (references) | ||
| Amphibious cargo ship | Amphibious cargo ships, also called attack cargo ships, are ships designed or converted specifically to carry troops, heavy equipment and supplies in support of amphibious assaults. Compared to other cargo ship types, these ships can carry landing crafts, are faster, have more armament, and have larger hatches and booms. (references) | ||
| Amphibious Command Ship | Amphibious Command Ships in the United States Navy are the large, purpose built ships of the Blue Ridge class. Originally designed to command large amphibious invasions like Operation Overlord, with the lack of amphibious invasions to command, they have become general command ships, serving as floating headquarters for the different combatant commands. Currently, they are assigned to Seventh and Sixth Fleets. (references) | ||
| Amphibious demonstration | An amphibious operation conducted for the purpose of deceiving the enemy and leading him into a course of action unfavorable to him. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious landing | A military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion; "MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious operation | A military operation by both land and sea forces. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious Ready Group | An Amphibious Ready Group of the United States Navy consists of a Navy element — a group of ships known as an amphibious task force (ATF) — and a landing force (LF) of United States Marine Corps (and occasionally, United States Army troops), in total about 5000 people. Together, these elements and supporting units are trained, organized, and equipped to perform amphibious operations. (references) | ||
| Amphibious Ready Group Alpha | Amphibious Ready Group Alpha' (Marine contingent "Special Landing Force Alpha" or SLF-A often referred to as the "Sluff", during the Viet-Nam era identified as Task Group 76.4) consisted of various support vessels for an "LPH" or Landing Platform Helicopter such as were the USS Princeton (LPH5), USS Okinawa (LPH2), and USS Iwo Jima (LPH3). Support vessels like an LST (Landing Ship Troop) or LSD (Landing Ship Deployment) included various vessels supporting a Marine Corps battalion referred to as a Batallion Landing Team (BLT). The Marine elements of the Group were referred to as Special Landing Force Alpha which itself consisted of the BLT and a Marine Helicoptor Squadron. (references) | ||
| Amphibious transport dock | An amphibious transport dock (also called a landing platform dock or LPD) is a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. The United States Navy operates several of this type of ship; their helicopters, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and air-cushion or conventional landing craft support of the United States Marine Corps's "vertical envelopment" assault doctrine. The ships are generally designed to transport troops into a war zone by sea, primarily using landing craft, although invariably they will also have a limited airborne capability. (references) | ||
| Amphibious vehicle | A flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Amphibious warfare | Amphibious warfare is the assault of an objective located on land by a force attacking from ships. It requires landing craft to transport troops to land from the ships which carry them to the area to be assaulted. (references) | ||
| Austin class amphibious transport dock | Raleigh class and was followed by the San Antonio and Cleveland classes. Note that some sources consider Cleveland and later ships to be a part of the Austin class, but the Naval Vessel Registry lists them as a separate class. (references) | ||
| Charleston class amphibious cargo ship | The Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship was a class of amphibious cargo ships in the United States Navy. (references) | ||
| Cleveland class amphibious transport dock | The Cleveland class of amphibious transport dock was a refinement of the Austin class. Note that some sources consider Cleveland and later ships to be a part of the Austin class, but the Naval Vessel Registry lists them as a separate class. All earlier classes are being replaced by the San Antonio class. (references) | ||
| Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International | Cool Amphibious Manufacturers International (CAMI) is an amphibious vehicle manufacturer based in the United States. They have many different types of amphibious vehicles, including the Hydra Terra, an amphibious bus filled with foam. CAMI claims that the bus is unsinkable and safer than the DUKW (WWII amphibious assault vehicles), LARCs (Vietnam War era assault vehicles), and Stalwarts (British assault vehicles). (references) | ||
| Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship | The Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships were built as dedicated helicopter carriers, capable of operating up to 20 helicopters to carry up to 1,800 Marines ashore. The last ship of the class was decommissioned in 2002. (references) | ||
| Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek | The four bases were partially inactivated at the end of hostilities of World War II. Shortly thereafter, however, the bases at Little Creek, because of their central location on the Atlantic coast, excellent and varied beach conditions, proximity to the naval facilities of Norfolk, berthing facilities for amphibious ships through the size of LSTs, and other advantages, were consolidated into the present installation and renamed the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek with a commissioning date of August 10, 1945. It was designated a permanent base in 1946. (references) | ||
| San Antonio class amphibious transport dock | The San Antonio class is the United States Navy's primary class of amphibious transport dock (LPD). It is replacing the older Austin-, Cleveland-, and Trenton- class LPDs as well as the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, Newport-class tank landing ships, and one class that has already been retired, the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships. Thus, the twelve planned San Antonios will replace a total of 41 ships; however the San Antonio class's funding may be reduced in 2006 as a result of suspected budget cuts [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041231/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_cuts]. (references) | ||
| Trenton class amphibious transport dock | The Trenton class of amphibious transport dock was a refinement of the Austin and Cleveland classes. Note that some sources consider Cleveland and later ships to be a part of the Austin class, but the Naval Vessel Registry lists them as a separate class. All earlier classes are being replaced by the San Antonio class. (references) | ||
| Wasp class amphibious assault ship | The Wasp class amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy are designed to land forces on hostile shores, and they are the largest vessels of this type in service anywhere in the world. To the untrained eye they may resemble an aircraft carrier. However, despite the fact that they normally carry a small number of AV-8B Harrier II aircraft, and have a secondary role supporting this type in larger numbers, their primary role is not operating fixed wing aircraft. They have a large airwing of helicopters which are dedicated to ferrying troops and equipment ashore from the ships. They also possess a well deck for launching smaller landing craft such as the hovercraft LCAC. The Wasp class vessels are derived from the earlier Tarawa class. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: amphibious
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Advanced Amphibious Aircraft Bimotore a turbina della potenza unitaria di 2700 CV,con prestazioni superiori(carico utile di 8000 litri). | General | Evening on which the exhibition will remain open later than usual. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amphibious assault | Military | 1: (DOD) The principal type of amphibious operation that involves establishing a force on a hostile or potentially hostile shore. See also assault; assault phase. (references) | |
| 2: The principal type of amphibious operation which involves establishing a force on a hostile shore. (references) | |||
| Amphibious assault area | Military | See landing area. (references) | |
| Amphibious assault bulk fuel system | Military | (DOD) The petroleum, oils, and lubricants discharge system used to support US Marine Corps amphibious assaults and maritime pre-positioning force operations. It consists of 5,000 or 10,000 feet of buoyant 6-inch hose deployed from a landing ship, tank in amphibious assaults, or a maritime pre-positioning ship in maritime pre-positioning force operations. See also amphibious assault; petroleum, oils, and lubricants. (references) | |
| Amphibious assault landing | Military | See amphibious operation, Part e. (references) | |
| Amphibious assault ship (general purpose) | Military | (DOD) A naval ship designed to embark, deploy, and land elements of a landing force in an assault by helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and by combinations of these methods. Designated as "LHA" or with internal dock as "LHD." (references) | |
| Amphibious aviation assault ship | Military | (DOD) An amphibious assault ship, landing platform helicopter; general purpose amphibious assault ship; or general purpose amphibious assault ship (with internal dock). (references) | |
| Amphibious chart | Military | (DOD, NATO) A special naval chart designed to meet special requirements for landing operations and passive coastal defense, at a scale of 1:25,000 or larger, and showing foreshore and coastal information in greater detail than a combat chart. (references) | |
| Amphibious command ship | Military | (DOD, NATO) A naval ship from which a commander exercises control in amphibious operations. Designated as LCC. (references) | |
| Amphibious construction battalion | Military | (DOD) A permanently commissioned naval unit, subordinate to the Commander, Naval Beach Group, designed to provide an administrative unit from which personnel and equipment are formed in tactical elements and made available to appropriate commanders to operate pontoon causeways, transfer barges, warping tugs, and assault bulk fuel systems, and to meet salvage requirements of the naval beach party. Also called PHIBCB. (references) | |
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