]] A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of the largest caliber of guns. Battleships are larger, better-armed and better-armored than cruisers and destroyers. Battleship design continually evolved to incorporate and adapt technological advances to maintain an edge. The word battleship was coined around 1794 and is a shortened form of line-of-battle ship, the dominant warship in the Age of Sail."battleship" The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. OED Online. Oxford University Press. 4 Apr. 2000 The term came into formal use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship,Stoll, J. Steaming in the Dark?, Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 36 No. 2, Jun 1992 whose design culminated in the 1890s with the generation of ships now known as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906, HMS Dreadnought heralded a revolution

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