Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A jet engine having a turbine-driven compressor and developing thrust from the exhaust of hot gases.
- noun An aircraft in which a turbojet is used.
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- noun A
jet engine that developsthrust solely from high-speedexhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
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- noun a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
- noun an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
Etymologies
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Examples
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The engineering of the jet tech graft made it fairly straight forward for her and her crew to swap it in, replacing the GE turbojet that had to that point powered her Spirit, and many Spirits before.
365 tomorrows » Steve Smith : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Dual-propulsion (turbojet and rocket) or hybrid-propulsion systems like Skylon have been developed by British designers since the 1950s.
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Jet engines: The turbojet engine, invented in Britain in the mid-1930s by Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle, was given to the U.S company General Electric GE in 1942 to develop for use in World War II.
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My personal favorite is a reusable supersonic first stage based on turbojet engines, probably horizontal takeoff.
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The main idea now is to develop an engine which is able to take the aircraft from the tarmac to mach 6+ using basically one engine which combines a turbojet, ramjet, and last but not least a scramjet.
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The four turbojet engines are embedded directly into the wings.
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The engineering of the jet tech graft made it fairly straight forward for her and her crew to swap it in, replacing the GE turbojet that had to that point powered her Spirit, and many Spirits before.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Considering how far the work on scramjets has gotten the main sticking point is a turbojet with the capacity to accelerate the craft to high mach 3 speed at which juncture the ramjet would take over and the turbojet would be hidden in an enclosure.
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It is an open two-seater car with undulating side vents, a turbojet-like rear and an aggressive retractable spoiler.
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It is an open two-seater car with undulating side vents, a turbojet-like rear and an aggressive retractable spoiler.
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