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Ti·tan·ic    Audio Help   [tahy-tan-ik] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a British luxury liner that sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April, 1912, with a loss of 1517 lives.
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ti·tan·ic2    Audio Help   [tahy-tan-ik] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.(initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Titans.
2.Also, titan. of enormous size, strength, power, etc.; gigantic.
[Origin: 1650–60; < Gk Tītānikós. See Titan, -ic]

—Related forms
ti·tan·i·cal·ly, adverb
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–adjective Chemistry.
of or containing titanium, esp. in the tetravalent state.
[Origin: 1820–30; titan(ium) + -ic]
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Main Entry:  titanic
Part of Speech:  adjective
Synonyms:  colossal, earthshaking, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, great, huge, humongous, immense, large, mammoth, monstrous, vast
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Main Entry:  giant
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Of extraordinary size and power.
Synonyms:  behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, tremendous, vast
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Titanic, British liner that sank on the night of Apr. 14-15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg in the N Atlantic S of Newfoundland. More than 1,500 lives were lost. The Titanic, thought to be the fastest ship afloat and almost unsinkable, was on her maiden voyage and carried many notables among the more than 2,200 persons aboard. These circumstances made the loss seem the more appalling to the public in England and the United States.

Official and other investigations revealed that messages of warning had been sent but had either not been received by the commanding officers or had been ignored by them. The ship had continued at full speed even after the warnings were sent. She did not carry sufficient lifeboats, and many of the lifeboats were launched with only a few of the seats occupied. Other vessels in the vicinity were unable to reach the Titanic before she sank; one, only 10 mi (16 km) away, did not respond because her wireless operator had retired for the evening.

The disaster brought about measures to promote safety at sea, particularly the establishment of a patrol to make known the location of icebergs and of stringent regulations about the proper number and proper equipment of lifeboats to be carried by vessels. The catastrophe inspired a large literature. An expedition led by Robert D. Ballard discovered the wreck in 1985.

See L. Beesley, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic (1912, repr. 1973) A. Gracie, The Truth about the Titanic (1913, repr. 1973), W. Lord, A Night to Remember (1959), and R. Brown, Voyage of the Iceberg (1983).

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