one-stage

Unlike SpaceShipOne, Rocketplane's XP vehicle is a one-stage affair.

Up, Up And Ka-Ching! 2008

If you think about what VZGT04 are actually doing, surely it is most reasonably construed as setting limits on what performance you can expect from a one-stage partial least squares method – both with perfect pseudoproxies and under noise assumptions which I view as being inappropriately optimistic.

Von Storch et al [2006] « Climate Audit 2006

In the white noise scenario, signal recovery using one-stage PLS without detrending is better than one-stage PLS with detrending.

Von Storch et al [2006] « Climate Audit 2006

However, with red noise, the results using one-stage PLS are virtually identical with and without detrending.

Von Storch et al [2006] « Climate Audit 2006

You can't get a missile all the way around the world with just one-stage rockets.

CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2002 2002

As illustrated in Fig. 16, a one-stage pumping scheme should be chosen for raw water to be pumped to an elevated site where the treatment plant and reservoir are located.

1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996

Such a one-stage pumping scheme has greater advantages over a two-stage scheme as it increases its reliability by a factor of 2.

1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996

The IFP also demanded a one-stage process of transformation with a final constitution adopted by

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

As has been previously indicated, the IFP will be able to rejoin negotiations only once a model for the establishment of a federal system in a one-stage process is at least put on the table for consideration by the Negotiating Council.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

A new, more powerful kind of rocket perhaps -- otherwise Porter wouldn't be trying to take a one-stage rocket to the Moon.

By Proxy Randall Garrett 1957