space-borneadj.
/ˈspeɪsbɔːn/, U.S. /ˈspeɪsˌbɔrn/ 1. Travelling or carried through space.
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the world > the universe > space > [adjective]
apogeana1644
ultramundane1656
extramundane1661
super-aerial1664
outworldish1674
unterrestrial1745
transmundane1777
extra-terrene1843
cosmical1849
extra-telluric1868
extra-terrestrial1868
exterrestrial1870
cosmic1876
extra-tellurian1881
supermundane1883
Uranian1908
contraterrene1946
space-borne1952
space-borne1967
spacy1967
society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [adjective]
space-borne1952
1952 Space Sci. Fiction Nov. 56/1 Eventually there would be found a space-borne civilization on a level with Man.
1953 Sci. Monthly Mar. 133 You thinking ones Who live upon a Space-borne orb.
1965 New Scientist 26 Aug. 485/1 One would have thought that the bugs could have been eliminated from the fuel cell system before it ever became space-borne.
1999 Time Out N.Y. 10 June 168/3 In Moon Patrol , you rumble across a lunar landscape..swarming with space-borne alien saucers.
2003 Pop. Sci. May 44/3 CloudSat..will trail roughly one minute behind Aqua and use a first-ever spaceborne millimeter-wave radar system to pick up global measurements of cloud thickness.
2. Carried out or performed in space; operating in space.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > space > [adjective]
apogeana1644
ultramundane1656
extramundane1661
super-aerial1664
outworldish1674
unterrestrial1745
transmundane1777
extra-terrene1843
cosmical1849
extra-telluric1868
extra-terrestrial1868
exterrestrial1870
cosmic1876
extra-tellurian1881
supermundane1883
Uranian1908
contraterrene1946
space-borne1952
space-borne1967
spacy1967
1967 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 58 2156 The basic research potentialities in space-borne studies of auroras.
1975 Nature 22 May 287/1 With the shuttle taking up an ever-increasing share of the space budget, there is likely to be little money to spare for expanding space-borne astronomy.
2000 Locus Aug. 48/1 Trek never gave us anything like the outriggers, wandering, spaceborne mining collectives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1952