Thruster

Word THRUSTER
Character 8
Hyphenation thrust er
Pronunciations /ˈθɹʌstɚ/

Definitions and meanings of "Thruster"

What do we mean by thruster?

One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.

A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).

A bow thruster or a stern thruster.

A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.

An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.

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The word "thruster" in example sentences

The Russian Hall effect thruster is one type of electric propulsion system particularly suited for near-Earth missions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our main thruster was malfunctioning, which called for an emergency landing, and I picked the least populated area in the vicinity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

CABBAGE: Apparently, the issue is with a thermostat that controls the heater on one of these so-called thruster jets that they use to keep the shuttle stable when it's docked to the space station or when it's in space and they are making inspections. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Before the carbon nanotube cathodes developed by Georgia Tech can be used on satellites, however, their lifetime will have to be increased to match that of a satellite thruster, which is typically 2,000 hours or more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And ESA has also validated the concept behind the thruster, which is this double layer concept. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Known as a "thruster," the new engine fired continuously for ten minutes in a specially constructed vacuum test chamber that simulates the space environment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

" A thruster was a man who would bully and whip his way to the head of the field while riding to hounds and in doing so upset dozens of other hunters. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)

Cheng Yuechong, vice mayor of Ningbo city in the eastern province of Zhejiang and a member of the CPPCC National Committee, said the Shanghai Expo would become a "thruster" to push forward integration and development of the Yangtze River Delta region.

So you need to have an external source of electrons to neutralize these ions, and that's generally done by having a second device on the side of the thruster which is called a hollow cathode device. ❋ Unknown (2008)

NASA says Messenger will briefly fire its main thruster and drop into orbit around Mercury at 0054 hours Universal time on Friday, March 18. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At a Rolls factory on the remote Norwegian island of Hareidlandet, workers program computer-controlled machine tools to sculpt blades for thruster pods that can hold a massive ship stationary in churning waters. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)

Messenger settled into near polar orbit around Mercury around 1254 UTC after firing its main thruster engine for 15 minutes to slow the spacecraft down and place it in the proper position for its planetary rendezvous. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Towards the end of her tenth full-frontal vulvic thruster the heel of her left boot fell off. ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

His collection of 300 to 400 items includes a space shuttle tile, a thruster from a Gemini spacecraft and most unusually, a package of bread cubes that flew on Apollo 11, the lunar landing mission, as astronaut Michael Collins' food rations. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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