Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of driving or propelling.
- noun A driving or propelling force.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of propelling or driving forward; impulse given.
- noun In pathology, same as
paralysis festinans .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling.
- noun An impelling act or movement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Force causingmovement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of propelling
- noun a propelling force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact with appropriate advancements in propulsion and life support technology, it is reasonable to consider extending the IRHAX approach to missions into the main asteroid belt and destinations in the outer solar system.
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In fact with appropriate advancements in propulsion and life support technology, it is reasonable to consider extending the approach to missions into the main asteroid belt and destinations in the outer solar system.
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Building Shuttle-C is not "long payoff research in propulsion and other technologies."
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I worked in propulsion in the navy for a short while, at a municipal wastewater facility and in the nanotechnology field.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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If ion propulsion is used, the delta v is actually less due to the more favorable solar beta angles for the "climb out" of the LEO gravity well.
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Building Shuttle-C is not "long payoff research in propulsion and other technologies."
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Flying some X33 types of vehicles to get real flight experience in propulsion and materials.
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The main propulsion system processor of the digital autopilot converts body axis and attitude error signals generated in TVC into pitch and yaw nozzle deflection commands for the main engines.
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The propulsion is all-chemical, and requires no new technology development.
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The approach of telerobotically-enhanced crew exploration could eventually be extended to the asteroid belt and the near outer solar system with advancements in propulsion and life support technologies.
"Moon = Stupid": Its The Same Tired Rhetoric From Bob Zubrin - NASA Watch 2009
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