nose conen.
/ˈnəʊz kəʊn/, U.S. /ˈnoʊz ˌkoʊn/ A conical covering or cap for the nose of something; esp. the cone-shaped front section of a rocket, designed to withstand the severe heating caused by atmospheric friction and usually containing the payload. Cf. nose cap n. 3.
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1949 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 8 233 A diagram of the rocket is shown in Fig. 1. The equipment space is within a thin ogival-shaped aluminium nose-cone.
1963 Guardian 30 Mar. 1/5 The plane was struck by lightning..A hole was made in the fibre nosecone.
1974 A. Price Other Paths to Glory ii. ii. 128 They were trying to take the brass nose-cone off one of our howitzer shells.
1992 N.Y. Times 21 July d6/3 Corning's patented glass and ceramic mixtures..were developed during the 1950's for use in the nose cones of American space rockets.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Business Suppl.) 13/2 The £35,000 nose cone from a Harrier jet vanished from the store room of an RAF station.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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