pulsejet engine

or pulse-jet engine

[ puhls-jet ]

nounAeronautics.
  1. a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.

Origin of pulsejet engine

1
First recorded in1945–50; pulse1 + jet1

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