Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A device for augmenting the thrust of a jet engine by burning additional fuel with the uncombined oxygen in the exhaust gases.
- n. A device for burning or chemically altering unburned or partially burned carbon compounds in exhaust gases.
Wiktionary
- n. A device in the engine of an aircraft which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a device injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust
Etymologies
- From after- + burner (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is interesting as it allows to mix foreign binaries with native ones, see "afterburner" in my next blog posting.”
“MSI's R5770-PMD1G differentiates itself from the fold through its exclusive ability to support the "afterburner" overclocking utility, which not only manages the GPU voltage but also modifies the fan speed according to the temperature.”
“afterburner" affect to push the creatine into the muscle cells faster or with more "force".”
“QEMU, leading to build times of about 24h, which may be pushed to under 5h, if applying some "afterburner": -).”
“I may give details regarding the "afterburner" in one of my next blog postings: -)”
“MSI R5770-PMD1G supports the over voltage function of GPU by MSI exclusive overclocking utility 'afterburner', and the maximum overclocking voltage will be up to 1. 300V.”
“But when I lived in Fakenham I was always surprised to see US jets screaming very low and very fast across Fakenham, going in to steep climbs (needing an afterburner and making lots of noise) and failing to do what the RAF routinely do, which is to fly around towns.”
“At the very least, I'd like to give his testicles a squeeze for sharking my plasma afterburner design. —”
‘FlashForward’ Episode 1.10 Recap: ‘A561984′ » MTV Movies Blog
“Of course my ears still ring from the sound of F4 Phantom engines on afterburner, and it was 30 years ago ...”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“The dog took one look at the cat and left the area of engagement at full afterburner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afterburner’.
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 more...
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SEDE - weapons
ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., bazooka, biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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afters
aftermath, after-tax, aftertaste, afterworld, afterword, after hours, after glow, after-hours, after-shave, after the fact, after-wit, afternoon and 44 more...
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SEDE - air combat
AWACS, automatic flight ..., combined IFF, Eurofighter, instrument flight, jet, vertical take-off..., g-tolerance, aeromedical evacu..., decibel, eject, fly-by-wire contr... and 82 more...
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SEDE+TRAN - military transport
AWACS, armored car, cargo helicopter, helicopter gunship, light battleship, tank and artiller..., zippo boat, automatic flight ..., combined IFF, communications sa..., cylinder, Eurofighter and 71 more...
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calefactory
just plain hot
hot as blue blazes, frowsty, simoomy, scorcher, solfatara, (hot) dog days, burninga, chilidog days, red-hot, saburration, whot, sudatorium and 11 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Foxtrot's list
afternoon delight, almost unreal, full of spark, dazzle n daze, alarming stride, rushing tide, double dagger, in the nude, constant pressure, widow maker, bourbon on the rocks, air fare holme and 311 more...
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