Aerospace engineering
the branch of engineering that deals with the design, development, testing, and production of aircraft and related systems (aeronautical engineering) and of spacecraft, missiles, rocket-propulsion systems, and other equipment operating beyond the earth’s atmosphere (astronautical engineering)
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the atmosphere and the beyond considered as a whole. the industry concerned with the design and manufacture of aircraft, rockets, missiles, spacecraft, etc., that operate in aerospace. of or relating to aerospace or the aerospace industry. noun the atmosphere and space beyond (modifier) of or relating to rockets, missiles, space vehicles, etc, that fly or […]
- Aerosphere
. noun (archaic) the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth
- Aerostatic
of or relating to . of, or capable of supporting, aerostats. Historical Examples Through me, the aerostatic art would render immense services to the world, if God should spare my life! A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) Jules Verne You think, then, that aerostatic science has said its last word? Five Weeks in a Balloon […]
- Aerostatics
the branch of statics that deals with gases in equilibrium and with gases and bodies in the gases in equilibrium with one another. Compare . the science of lighter-than-air aircraft. Historical Examples Of late he had resumed his study of aerostatics, and was constructing another flying-machine. The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky […]
- Aerostation
the science or art of operating . Historical Examples The future development of aerostation is necessarily difficult to forecast. The Dominion of the Air J. M. Bacon But, I resumed, you seem to have valuable documents on aerostation? A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) Jules Verne The Chinese have been beforehand with us in all […]