Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who thrusts or stabs; hence, a swordsman.
Wiktionary
- n. One who thrusts or stabs.
- n. A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- n. nautical A bow thruster.
- n. surfing A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who thrusts or stabs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft
- n. one who intrudes or pushes himself forward
Etymologies
- The surfboard sense was coined by Simon Anderson, who created the design in 1980. The name was almost immediately applied generically to any surfboard with that fin design, not just boards made by him. (He never patented the design or trademarked the name.) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Russian Hall effect thruster is one type of electric propulsion system particularly suited for near-Earth missions.”
“Our main thruster was malfunctioning, which called for an emergency landing, and I picked the least populated area in the vicinity.”
“CABBAGE: Apparently, the issue is with a thermostat that controls the heater on one of these so-called thruster jets that they use to keep the shuttle stable when it's docked to the space station or when it's in space and they are making inspections.”
“Before the carbon nanotube cathodes developed by Georgia Tech can be used on satellites, however, their lifetime will have to be increased to match that of a satellite thruster, which is typically 2,000 hours or more.”
“And ESA has also validated the concept behind the thruster, which is this double layer concept.”
“Known as a "thruster," the new engine fired continuously for ten minutes in a specially constructed vacuum test chamber that simulates the space environment.”
“ A thruster was a man who would bully and whip his way to the head of the field while riding to hounds and in doing so upset dozens of other hunters.”
“So you need to have an external source of electrons to neutralize these ions, and that's generally done by having a second device on the side of the thruster which is called a hollow cathode device.”
“His collection of 300 to 400 items includes a space shuttle tile, a thruster from a Gemini spacecraft and most unusually, a package of bread cubes that flew on Apollo 11, the lunar landing mission, as astronaut Michael Collins' food rations.”
USA Today: Interest in space memorabilia soars as shuttle era ends
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