propulsion

[ UK /pɹəpˈʌlʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈpəɫʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a propelling force
  2. the act of propelling
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How To Use propulsion In A Sentence

  • For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins.
  • Kitesurfing involves riding a small board over water while gaining propulsion from the wind by means of a large kite.
  • The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.
  • There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse.
  • Exhaust nozzle is one of the key components of pulse detonation rocket engine (PDRE). Exhaust nozzle can be used to improve the propulsion performance of PURE.
  • The propulsion system provides a maximum submerged speed of 33 knots and a surface speed of 10 knots.
  • Laser power beaming and propulsion, on the other hand, would require sustained average power output from lasers of megawatts to gigawatts .
  • Japan's largest earthquake on record may have knocked the planet 3.9 inches off its axis as one crustal plate slid beneath another, Eric Fielding, a principal scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told Bloomberg news agency. Report: High chance of magnitude-7 or higher quake in Japan in coming days
  • Its ion-propulsion engine will fire continuously for the next four days to help it stabilise.
  • The dune buggy has a motor for propulsion and parafoil for lift. The Sun
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