Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without reaction: said of certain alternating-current machines which are so designed that the armature currents neither strengthen nor weaken the magnetic circuit.
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- adjective Devoid of
reactions ; notreacting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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While you're dropping into ANU, find out if anyone is working on a "reactionless" electro-magnetic drive based on momentum stored in static crossed EM fields.
Space : The Long Haul Zoe Brain 2006
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This probably explains their more nonsensical statements about Tea Parties: the idea of a legitimate populist, grassroots-driven movement is as alien to them as a reactionless drive would be to a modern physicist.
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Somewhere in the cylindrical metal pod near her center of mass, perhaps occupying it completely, was the reactionless drive.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Its drive must be either a reactionless drive, like his own, or a kzin-style induced-gravity drive.
A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992
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Hot Needle of Inquiry must be moving on reactionless thrusters alone.
The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980
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* Hot Needle of Inquiry* must be moving on reactionless thrusters alone.
The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980
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Most ships used a reactionless drive, the "thruster."
Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975
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Its drive must be either a reactionless drive, like his own, or a kzin-style induced-gravity drive.
Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975
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The engines must be reactionless: thrusters of the human type, or something more advanced.
Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970
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You will find that the ship behaves very like a ship driven by reactionless thrusters, except that there is no internal gravity.
Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970
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