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Zond
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zawnd
]
Zond
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zɔnd
/
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noun
one of a series of Soviet space probes that photographed the moon and returned to earth.
Origin:
1964;
<
Russian:
orig., surgical probe <
French
sonde
sonde
;
z-
perhaps due to
German
Sonde
(< F)
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Zond
(zɒnd)
—
n
any of a series of unmanned Soviet spacecraft, first launched in 1964 as interplanetary space probes, the most successful of which,
Zond 3
, sent back photographs of the hidden side of the moon in 1965
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