jet engine
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Airjet engineˌjet ˈengine noun [countable] TTAan engine that pushes out a stream of hot air and gases behind it, used in aircraft → rocket engineExamples from the Corpusjet engine• When a resultant is radial, the body can take off, like a rocket or a jet engine.• A jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up.• In fact the improvement statistics in our jet engine shops were even more remarkable.