jet propulsion in English

noun
1
propulsion by the backward ejection of a high-speed jet of gas or liquid.
The pilot returned to his writing and work on a system of jet propulsion .

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1. 10 This aircraft works by jet propulsion.

2. The squid uses a form of jet propulsion

3. Axially adjustable thrust bearing for jet propulsion units

4. Like most Belemnites, it would have used jet propulsion to move around

5. Cnidarian - Cnidarian - Locomotion: Medusae swim by jet propulsion (see below Tissues and muscles)

6. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory HORIZONS System provides one of several ephemeris computation services.

7. Scallops and Cardiids, siphonophores, tunicates (such as salps), and some jellyfish also employ jet propulsion

8. All Cephalopods are capable of swimming by jet propulsion and have mobile tentacles for catching prey.

9. I thought I'd start with telling you or showing you the people who started [ Jet Propulsion Lab ].

10. Amphibious vehicle including a water jet propulsion device for performing a levitation operation on both land and water

11. GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIRBREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; combustion apparatus in which combustion takes place in a fluidised bed of fuel or other particles F23C 10/00; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B 11/00; using gas-turbine plants in vehicles, see the relevant vehicle classes) Notes

12. Airplane definition, a heavier-than-air aircraft kept aloft by the upward thrust exerted by the passing air on its fixed wings and driven by propellers, jet propulsion, etc

13. Behavior: Anglerfishes do not swim in the conventional way; instead, they “walk” on their pectoral fins or use ‘jet propulsion’ (forcefully expelling water from a small opening generally behind and below the pectoral fins)

14. To some extent, man has been able to copy principles that he finds in this creation, such as the jet propulsion of the squid, the sonar of the bat and some of the aerodynamics of birds.

15. The molluscan class Cephalopoda--squids and octopuses being the most familiar examples--includes a remarkable diversity of tentacled marine predators that use a jet propulsion system to move through the water, in some cases very quickly.

16. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory defines a main-belt asteroid as an asteroid with a semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun) of more than 2 AU but less than 3.2 AU, and a perihelion (closest approach distance to the Sun) of no less than 1.6 AU.

17. On the basis of the following characters it is concluded that ammonoids were incapable of swimming efficiently by jet-propulsion: (1) the retractor muscles were weakly developed; (2) the life position was unstable and highly variable; and (3) in animals with a ventral apertural rostrum the hyponome was probably absent.