rocketry

noun

rock·​et·​ry ˈrä-kə-trē How to pronounce rocketry (audio)
: the study of, experimentation with, or use of rockets

Examples of rocketry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web SpaceX still needs to pull off a series of formidable rocketry firsts before Starship is ready to head to the moon and beyond. Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 The city was also once home to the father of modern rocketry and the inventor of the smiley face. Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024 This is based on the facts that the shooter was working several days a week, hanging out with his friend on a regular basis, and doing things that brought him pleasure like hobbies of coin collecting and model rocketry. Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 30 Jan. 2024 Gunfights and airstrikes While the rocketry was still underway, Hamas blasted numerous holes in the security fences between Israel and Gaza. Michael J. Armstrong, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023 On Thursday, a rocketry team from Ontario’s York University, Arbalest Rocketry, launched its amateur ‘Goose 3’ rocket from the Spaceport Nova Scotia launchpad. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023 The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies. Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023 The significance of the test flight goes well beyond the combustible violence of rocketry as performance art. Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 Bonestell is best known for painting the kind of modern, Wernher von Braun rocketry that Life magazine would cover in the fifties, but there’s usually not much overt personality to his work. Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rocketry was in 1930

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“Rocketry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocketry. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

rocketry

noun
rock·​et·​ry ˈräk-ə-trē How to pronounce rocketry (audio)
: the study of, experimenting with, or use of rockets
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