battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. Her design had two revolutionary features:
known as dreadnoughts. This was the point at which the ships that had been laid down before were redesignated "pre-dreadnoughts". The pre-dreadnought developed
ever-larger super-dreadnoughts. To combat the Brazilian acquisitions, the Argentine and Chilean governments ordered two dreadnoughts each: the Rivadavia
designs, influenced by HMS Dreadnought, were referred to as "dreadnoughts", though the term eventually became obsolete as dreadnoughts became the only type
were scrapped after the revolutionary dreadnought concept rendered the Brazilian design obsolete. Two dreadnoughts were instead ordered from the United