Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to aerodynamic flow or flight conditions at speeds near the speed of sound.
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- adjective just
below , or justabove thespeed of sound - adjective
passing fromsubsonic tosupersonic , orvice versa
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage, then why do 22 long rifle are still flying true even at 600 yards!!!
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Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.
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The 'transonic' stage of a 7mm Weatherby is at about 1400 yards, a 30-06 at about 1200 yards, and my old slowpoke .35 Whelen is at 700 yards.
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Bullets become unstable when they travel through the "transonic" stage (where the bullet goes from being supersonic to subsonic) the reason for this as best as I understand is due to the change in the way the air flows over the grooves in the bullet that the rifling engraves in its surface.
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The 'transonic' stage of a 7mm Weatherby is at about 1400 yards, a 30-06 at about 1200 yards, and my old slowpoke .35 Whelen is at 700 yards.
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The aerodynamics between the tank and tower at transonic.
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The term "sound barrier" was coined for when an aircraft attempted to move from transonic to supersonic speed.
Peter Baksa: Can Our Limitations Be Created by Our Thinking? Peter Baksa 2011
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The term "sound barrier" was coined for when an aircraft attempted to move from transonic to supersonic speed.
Peter Baksa: Can Our Limitations Be Created by Our Thinking? Peter Baksa 2011
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Such design is very complicated since you fly through all possible flow regimes: From hypersonics down to supersonic, transonic and subsonic.
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The LAS can only get on the order of hundreds of feet away from Ares during the transonic region.
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