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supersonic

noun

Definition of supersonic

as in jet

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Recent Examples of supersonic Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind. — David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024 The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project hopes to revive commercial supersonic by reducing a jet’s sonic boom. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020 There’s no amount of computing power that can make the Wright Flyer supersonic. — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019 The Devils landed winger Patrick Maroon, no stranger to riding shotgun beside former superstar teammates like Connor McDavid and Ryan Getzlaf, as well as the supersonic Michael Grabner last Thursday. — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018

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Noun

In Hungary, the defense minister said fighter jets escorted three passenger planes Friday through the country's airspace within an hour after each received a bomb threat.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
From counter-drone defenses to advanced sensors integrated into tanks and fighter jets, the technologies transforming the battlefield are also changing, or even expanding, the markets served by legacy defense giants.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of jet

Noun

The system targets another engineering challenge involving different turbojet designs.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
But then the development of modern high-bypass turbofan jet engines that are 75% quieter than 1960s-technology turbojets eliminated much of the controversy.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 June 2026

Definition of turbojet

Noun

In mid-October Reliable’s software taxied, took off and landed a Cessna Grand Caravan, a single-engine turboprop plane, at Albuquerque’s main airport while a pilot supervised from company headquarters in California, more than 700 miles away.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
The aircraft uses an advanced commercial jet airframe designed for greater speed, range, payload capacity, and operating altitude than legacy turboprop ISR platforms.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of turboprop

Noun

Video recorded by people inside their cars captured the terrifying moment the aircraft plunged from the sky, before striking near the roadway and exploding.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Preliminary information suggests the aircraft that crashed is a business jet.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026

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