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单词 delta-v
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Definition of delta-v in English:

delta-v

(also delta-vee)
noun
mass nouninformal
  • Acceleration.

    four hundred knots of delta-v
    Example sentencesExamples
    • From a technical standpoint, a mission to Phobos requires minimal delta-v, because of its small mass and the ability to use aerobraking in the Martian atmosphere.
    • Further, they don't have the gravity-well problems which Mars and other planets have, and travel between asteroids will always be expensive in either time or delta-vee.
    • The delta-v to achieve geostationary orbit from low Earth orbit is 3.6 km/s.
    • Their main characteristics are warhead energy, acceleration, and total delta-v.
    • Below acceleration durations of perhaps 50 to 100 milliseconds, the acceleration tolerance versus time curve tends to follow lines of constant velocity change, or delta-v.

Origin

1960s: from delta (as a mathematical symbol denoting variation) + v for velocity.

 
 

Definition of delta-v in US English:

delta-v

(also delta-vee)
nounˈdeltəˌvē
informal
  • Acceleration.

    four hundred knots of delta-v
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Below acceleration durations of perhaps 50 to 100 milliseconds, the acceleration tolerance versus time curve tends to follow lines of constant velocity change, or delta-v.
    • The delta-v to achieve geostationary orbit from low Earth orbit is 3.6 km/s.
    • Their main characteristics are warhead energy, acceleration, and total delta-v.
    • Further, they don't have the gravity-well problems which Mars and other planets have, and travel between asteroids will always be expensive in either time or delta-vee.
    • From a technical standpoint, a mission to Phobos requires minimal delta-v, because of its small mass and the ability to use aerobraking in the Martian atmosphere.

Origin

1960s: from delta (as a mathematical symbol denoting variation) + v for velocity.

 
 
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