单词 | carrier rocket |
释义 | > as lemmascarrier rocket carrier rocket n. a rocket which carries a payload (typically another rocket, a satellite, or a weapon).In late nineteenth-century quots. referring to pyrotechnic rockets for carrying marine life-saving equipment. ΚΠ 1886 Portland (Maine) Daily Press 1 Nov. 4/3 The American Carrier Rocket Company..for the manufacture of powerful rockets with carrying capacity, designed among other things to throw life saving lines to vessels. 1896 Boston Sunday Globe 8 Nov. 2/1 One of his [sc. Patrick Cunningham's] earlier inventions was a carrier rocket, which was designed for use in cases of shipwreck. 1946 Antioch Rev. 6 487 The atom bomb and its carrier rocket which can't be stopped from coming over by interceptor-radar methods. 1959 Listener 18 June 1057/1 The carrier rocket of the Russian sputnik. 2005 D. M. Harland Story Space Station Mir ii. 62 The only difference in the carrier rocket was the omission of the escape system—in an accident the spacecraft was expendable. < as lemmas |
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