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AIRBORNE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moved or conveyed by or through air
Classified under:
Similar:
mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))
Context examples:
Airborne and invisible, microscopic pieces of dust, dirt, smoke, soot and liquid droplets often become destructive when they invade the bloodstream.
(Breathing Dirty Air May Harm Kidneys, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A NASA-developed airborne imager called a synthetic aperture radar took a detailed look at volcanoes in Central and South America during an Earth science study in late April and early May 2014.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory, observed Comet Wirtanen as it made its closest approach to Earth in December 2018.
(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)
Pollen, the same airborne material that wreaks misery during certain seasons in the form of drippy noses and itchy eyes, apparently can have an influence on weather.
(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
An acute infectious disease caused by RUBULAVIRUS, spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine, and usually seen in children under the age of 15, although adults may also be affected.
(Mumps, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
They discovered that airborne transmission was associated with a single genetic change in the engineered virus’s hemagglutinin that gave it the ability to bind to mammalian-type α2,6 SA of a particular class (long chain) without the loss of the other introduced changes that had made it a α2,3 SA binding type.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
The research team used SOFIA's airborne telescope and the Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, to take detailed infrared images of an interstellar dust cloud known as Supernova Remnant Sagittarius A East.
(Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation, NASA)
Despite large temperature increases in Alaska in recent decades, a new analysis of NASA airborne data finds that methane is not being released from Alaskan soils into the atmosphere at unusually high rates, as recent modeling and experimental studies have suggested.
(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)
Airborne soot produced by wildfires and fossil-fuel combustion and transported to the remote McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica contains levels of black carbon too low to contribute significantly to the melting of local glaciers.
(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)
Researchers using the airborne observatory SOFIA found definitively that the wind from the Cigar Galaxy not only transports a huge amount of gas and dust into the intergalactic medium, but also drags the magnetic field so it is perpendicular to the galactic disc.
(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)
