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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Brennschluss
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Examples
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He murmured, "brennschluss," and the murmur was like a trumpet blast.
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He tumed his eyes to the brennschluss timer and poised his hand on the cut-off switch, ready to choke the jet if the autopilot should fail.
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The pilot has his hands full in this maneuver, leaving it up to the co-pilot to guard the auto-pilot, to be ready to fire manually if need he, and to watch for brennschluss.
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Now that he thought about it, brennschluss had come pretty early.
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His propulsion tube reached brennschluss, and for a few moments he watched, checking his speed and direction.
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Now, ten minutes after brennschluss, they were going to start deceleration.
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The tube reached brennschluss and Rip called orders.
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But there was no possibility of getting at the stuff until brennschluss.
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You can’t walk around very well until the ship reaches brennschluss.
john commented on the word brennschluss
German word for the point at which a rocket or ballistic missile runs out of fuel. Used as a motif if Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the title of which describes the arc of a missile after brenschluss, when its path is determined by gravity.
February 26, 2008