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SLCM

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SLCM (plural SLCMs)

  1. Initialism of stochastic life cycle model.
    • 2002, Robert T. Futrell, Donald F. Shafer, Linda Shafer, Quality Software Project Management, →ISBN, page 89:
      Select the SLCM that will best satisfy the project attributes and constraints.
    • 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:
      The design of the common SLCM to be developed shall take the design constraints into account.
    • 2013, Michael Leitner, Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, →ISBN:
      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.
  2. Initialism of sea-launched cruise missile.
    Coordinate terms: ALCM, GLCM
    • 1990, Frank Von Hippel, R. Z. Sagdeev, Reversing the Arms Race, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 1991, Greg Schmergel, US Foreign Policy in the 1990s, →ISBN, page 122:
      Hence SLCM's do not fit easily into either a disarming first strike or a retaliatory category.
    • 2012, Jürgen Altmann, Joseph Rotblat, Verification of Arms Reductions: Nuclear, Conventional and Chemical, →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.

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