rocket engine
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rocket engine
noun
a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
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| rocket engine | |
| —n | |
| Also called: rocket motor a reaction engine in which a fuel and oxidizer are burnt in a combustion chamber, the products of combustion expanding through a nozzle and producing thrust | |
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Rocket engine
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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rocket engine
(click for larger image in new window) An engine used to produce a jet of hot gases to propel a rocket. The jet is produced by combustion of a fuel with other chemicals stored in the rocket. Since they do not rely on the oxygen in the atmosphere for combustion, rocket engines can operate in space. Compare turbojet. |
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Example sentences
Be a great rocket engine if there was a way to capture sunlight and push it out the back end.
Pulse detonation rocket engine technology is being developed for upper stages that boost satellites to higher orbits.
In the nineteen-fifties, rocket scientist built and test fired a nuclear rocket engine.
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