Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In gas-engines, combustion or burning of the gases after the explosion has taken place which should have made all the gas unite at once with the oxygen present.

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Examples

  • It has got two incredibly strong after-burning engines, that can push all that stuff that you carry, in addition to the airplane itself.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006 2006

  • It's got two incredibly strong after-burning engines that can push all that stuff that you carry in addition to the airplane itself and push it into supersonic speeds very easily.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006 2006

  • Even fireworks, flaming hookers, and tits under glass couldn’t put a smile on our faces like the ones we wore while flying the ’38, a two-place, twin-engine, after-burning supersonic jet.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • Even fireworks, flaming hookers, and tits under glass couldn’t put a smile on our faces like the ones we wore while flying the ’38, a two-place, twin-engine, after-burning supersonic jet.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • Even fireworks, flaming hookers, and tits under glass couldn’t put a smile on our faces like the ones we wore while flying the ’38, a two-place, twin-engine, after-burning supersonic jet.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • Even fireworks, flaming hookers, and tits under glass couldn’t put a smile on our faces like the ones we wore while flying the ’38, a two-place, twin-engine, after-burning supersonic jet.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

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