ROCKET PROPULSION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reaction propulsion using stored oxygen for combustion; used where there is insufficient atmospheric oxygen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("rocket propulsion" is a kind of...):

reaction propulsion (propulsion that results from the ejection at high velocity of a mass of gas to which the vehicle reacts with an equal and opposite momentum)

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