Number 13-class battleship Number 13-class battleship The "Number 13"-class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. The ships never received any names, being known only as "Numbers 13–16". They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a major naval construction program in 1919. The "Number 13" class was designed to be superior to all other existing battleships, planned or building. After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922, they were cancelled in November 1923 before construction
Opposite (semantics) has no word that stands in opposition to it (hence the unanswerability of "What is the opposite of platypus?"). Other words are opposable but have an accidental gap in a given language's lexicon. For example, the word "devout" lacks a lexical opposite, but it is fairly easy to conceptualize a parameter of devoutness where "devout" lies at the positive pole with a missing member at the negative pole. Opposites of such words can nevertheless sometimes be formed with the prefixes "un-" or "non-", with varying degrees of naturalness. For example, the word "undevout" appears in Webster's dictionary of 1828, while