Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that launches, as:
- n. A rifle attachment for firing grenades.
- n. A device, such as an attached tube or a portable unit, for firing rockets.
- n. An aircraft catapult.
Wiktionary
- n. That which or who launches. A device which throws something or the person who initiates a launch.
- n. application that holds icons or menus for frequently used programs
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a device capable of launching a rocket.
- n. A device which launches aircraft from an aircraft carrier; -- it provides additional velocity to the airplane, to supplement that from the airplane's engines, so that the airplane rapidly achieves a velocity sufficient to sustain it in flight when taking off.
WordNet 3.0
Etymologies
- launch + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The new mobile launcher is already being built and one of the pads already have new lightning towers for Constellation.”
“Developing a new, non-commercial launcher is going to keep failing because of simple economics.”
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
“The development cost of that heavy launcher is sunk. primarily thanks to its far better Russian engines”
“If NASA was wrong and a COTS EELV crew launcher is safer and cheaper let's see the analysis.”
“I also agree that the recovery of the first stage of the Ares I launcher is a bit overboard.”
“It can be developed in parallel with Shuttle while the Shuttle phases out and a new EELV or COTS-based crewed launcher is phased in.”
“So little or no cost savings there, and possibly even a cost increase, since the Ares I mobile launcher is already under construction.”
Congressional Budget Office Report on NASA Released - NASA Watch
“If available, any grenade launcher is widely popular!”
“But no matter how the power play is controlled, Gonchar will be the rocket launcher from the point.”
USATODAY.com - Gonchar gets to be with, not against, Penguins
“The M136 AT4 launcher is used by the Army to destroy light tanks.”
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SEDE - technology+material+support
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SEDE - weapons
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