SLCM

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Initialism of stochastic life cycle model.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounSLCM (plural SLCMs)

plural SLCMs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of stochastic life cycle model.

    Select the SLCM that will best satisfy the project attributes and constraints.

    2002, Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda Shafer, Quality Software Project Management, →ISBN, page 89
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    The design of the common SLCM to be developed shall take the design constraints into account.

    2009, A. Hu, C.G. Bilich, “Experience with Establishment of Reusable and Certifiable SLCM within ABB”, in Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, →ISBN, page 136

    Although there is significant flexibility and exploratory capabilities offere in the multi-objective structure and weighting in the SLCM, it does present a potential difficulty when carrying out analysis.

    2013, Michael Leitner, Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, →ISBN
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of sea-launched cruise missile.

    Hence SLCM's do not fit easily into either a disarming first strike or a retaliatory category.

    1991, Greg Schmergel, US Foreign Policy in the 1990s, →ISBN, page 122
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    In principle, ALCMs and SLCMs differ only in their launch platforms; it therefore might be possible for ALCMs to be launched from SLCM launchers with only minor modifications.

    1990, Frank Von Hippel, R. Z. Sagdeev, Reversing the Arms Race, →ISBN

    And since over 80% of US SLCMs will be non-nuclear, the correlation between SLCM-capable launchers and US nuclear SLCMs is even more tenuous.

    2012, Jürgen Altmann, Joseph Rotblat, Verification of Arms Reductions: Nuclear, Conventional and Chemical, →ISBN
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