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scram⋅jet

  [skram-jet]
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–noun Aeronautics.
a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
Origin:
1965–70; s(upersonic) c(ombustion) ramjet
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scram·jet   (skrām'jět')   
n.  A ramjet airplane engine designed for hypersonic flight that burns fuel in the supersonic airstream produced by the plane.

[s(upersonic) + c(ombustion) + ramjet.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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