2016年7月6日 星期三

Godzilla, Godzilla-sized

This 1949 double-mirror solar furnace concentrated the sun’s rays to melt just about anything that wandered into its 3,000 °C beam
Built in 1949, the giant Mont-Louis solar furnace could instantly ignite wood and melt through a steel plate in seconds
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Godzilla-sized

ADJECTIVE

Of a monstrous size.

Origin

1980s.


Godzilla 

Pronunciation: /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/ 

NOUN

informal
A particularly enormous example of something:a Godzilla of a condominium tower

Origin

From the name of a huge prehistoric monster featuring in a series of Japanese films from 1954.

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