Thesaurus results for TURBOJET

turbojet

noun

Definition of turbojet

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

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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

In game, the Keys look like an ideal place to hit pristine tropical waters for a dive, jet ski, or scuba trip.

— Tom Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2026
Howell started by taking a swing pass in the right flat, then turning on the jets to out race the defense 63 yards to the end zone.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Nov. 2026

Definition of jet

Noun

And then the spontaneous cheers and shouts erupted as the aircraft, full of returning troops, lifted off the South Vietnam air strip.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026
They were told that the plane was blown over by wind, and that the aircraft was parked in its stall when the incident happened.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of aircraft

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Trump and his family members have accepted a jetliner from the emir of Qatar, a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, and profits from a number of cryptocurrency enterprises, much of which came from foreign buyers.

— Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2026
The jetliner was stabilized and made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of jetliner

Noun

That gives operators the option to use the same airframe for jobs ranging from land surveys to ecological monitoring.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
The more engineers push to save weight, Datta notes, the more flexible the airframe becomes, making the wings and other structures more prone to bending, twisting, and vibration.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of airframe

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In another incident from Tuesday, the UKMTO said an unnamed tanker was struck by a projectile in the Persian Gulf.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
Nearly 200 people were on board the cruise ship, American Heritage, when the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with it, according New Orleans officials.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Nov. 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

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