Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of propelling a vessel or an air-ship by the reaction of a jet of water or air which is set in motion by machinery contained in the vessel.
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Examples
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Tizard led the mission, which offered the Americans information about self-sealing fuel tanks and jet-propulsion engines.
Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011
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For Safran, the deal furthers its diversification from jet-propulsion activities into such areas as maintenance and service operations.
GE Will Sell Detection Unit William Horobin 2009
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With the assistance of a fellow prisoner, a doctor/scientist, naturally Stark instead constructs an armored suit with built-in weapon technology and jet-propulsion capabilities, which enables his eventual escape.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Brian stepped up to the plate the jet-propulsion camping stove and made some delectable back-woods food.
Archive 2005-04-01 Kate 2005
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Our minds are preoccupied with thoughts of such things as atoms, jet-propulsion, cold wars, and McCarthyism.
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Why is it that the average teen-age boy can tell you more about nuclear fission, television, and jet-propulsion, than he can about the way a business enterprise operates?
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The flying bomb is driven by a jet-propulsion motor.
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All three parts of the station will be aided by small jet-propulsion units to swing on their own axes at the distance considered most convenient, 150,000 miles from Earth.
Modern Mechanix 2009
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The only non-plastic items on the Yikara and Piparn are the glass windows and engines _ 430hp Yanmar diesels with Hamiliton jet-propulsion units.
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We didn't much see him giddy-up-and-go with the puck as if with jet-propulsion through narrowly open lanes, and we didn't much see him unleash his characteristic bomb from the point.
On Frozen Blog 2009
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