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turbojet

noun

Definition of turbojetnext
as in turboprop

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Recent Examples of turbojet Unlike most subsequent commercial aircraft, the plane had its engines, four de Havilland Ghost turbojets, molded elegantly into the wing itself rather than in pods attached below it. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025 The sides fell from the packing crate, and the Roadrunner, a squat device that looked a little like a penguin, was propelled upward by two turbojets. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more. — Andrew King, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025 For a humanoid robot whose weight is larger than 15 kg, turbojets might be considered. — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2018 See All Example Sentences for turbojet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turbojet
  1. turboprop
  2. jet
  3. supersonic
  4. aircraft
  5. jetliner
  6. airframe
  7. tanker
  8. trijet
Noun
  • Gamera places a Honeywell TPE331 turboprop in a nacelle mounted between the two fuselages above the wing.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Totality from a turboprop A nine-passenger King Air turboprop chartered from Norlandair will fly from Reykjavík Airport, Iceland, north to south to intercept the path of totality in a flight known as Umbracept.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of turboprop
Noun
  • Tensions had already intensified Monday when Pakistani fighter jets struck sites in eastern Afghanistan that Islamabad described as militant hideouts.
    — MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In a video cameo, Cruise gave the monarch a shout-out while in a fighter jet.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of jet
Noun
  • 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
Definition of supersonic
Noun
  • All 18 men, dressed in blue jumpsuits, were seen boarding the large gray military aircraft.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Designed to fly at Mach 2 The TMS-10 project centers on a 10- to 15-seat supersonic business aircraft intended for business travel and high-end tourism.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of aircraft
Noun
  • The second hijacked jetliner, United Airlines Flight 175, struck the South Tower 17 minutes later, slamming into the 78th through 84th floors.
    — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The veteran journalist initially thought the jetliner might hit 2 Penn Plaza, the office building that overlooks Madison Square Garden.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of jetliner
Noun
  • Electric aircraft enters testing The eFlyer 2 pairs an electric propulsion system with a lightweight composite airframe.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Operating them isn't merely a matter of shrinking standard flight systems down into a smaller airframe or designing around the absence of a cockpit.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of airframe
Noun
  • Police said a white Peterbilt semi truck driving north with a tractor and tanker trailer struck the pedestrian.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In response, the Saudis redirected Asia shipments northwest to the Mediterranean, either through the Suez Canal or — for tankers too big to use it — a pipeline across Egypt to another tanker.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of tanker
Noun
  • The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Each day at noon, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Falcon flew a solo lap around the circuit in its flagship Falcon 7X trijet.
    — Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2015
Definition of trijet

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