posigrade rocket
Astronautics and Astronomy
noun
A small rocket that can be fired briefly to give forward thrust to a spacecraft.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Aeroplane.
- abdominiser
- abdominizer
- abdominoplasty
- abdominoscopy
- abdominous
- abduce
- abducens
- abducens nerve
- abducent
- abduct
- abductee
- abduction
- abductive
- abductor
- abductor muscle
- Abduh, Muhammad
- Abdul Hamid II
- Abdul-Jabbar
- Abdulla
- Abdullah
- Abdullah ibn Hussein
- Abdullah II
- Abdul Rahman, Tunku
- abeam
- a beam in one's eye