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1jet engine — an engine, as an aircraft engine, that produces forward motion by the rearward exhaust of a jet of fluid or heated air and gases. Also called jet, jet motor. [1940 45] * * * Any of a class of internal combustion engines that propel aircraft by… …
2gas-turbine engine — Introduction any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …
3Jet engine performance — This article describes how jet engine performance is estimated during the design phase. Similar techniques are used once the engine has been built and is being tested, except the performance of individual components, rather than being assumed, is …
4Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …
5jet — noun 1 plane with a jet engine ADJECTIVE ▪ jumbo ▪ supersonic ▪ regional (esp. AmE) ▪ commercial, passenger ▪ pr …
6Jet stream — Jet streams are fast flowing, relatively narrow air currents found at the tropopause, the transition between the troposphere (where temperature decreases with height) and the stratosphere (where temperature increases with height), [United States… …
7jet — jet1 [jet] vt., vi. jetted, jetting [< MFr jeter, to throw < OFr < VL * jectare, for L jactare, freq. of jacere, to throw < IE base * yē , to throw, do > Gr hienai, to set in motion, throw, send] 1. to spout, gush, or shoot out in… …
8jet — [adj] black atramentous, coal black, dark, ebon, ebony, inky, midnight, obsidian, pitchblack, pitch dark, raven, sable; concept 618 Ant. white jet [n1] rush, gush of substance flow, fountain, spout, spray, spring, spritz, spurt, squirt, stream;… …
9jet — Ⅰ. jet [1] ► NOUN 1) a rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening. 2) an aircraft powered by jet engines. ► VERB (jetted, jetting) 1) spurt out in a jet. 2) …
10jet — jet1 /jet/, n., v., jetted, jetting, adj. n. 1. a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc. 2. something that issues in such a stream, as water or gas. 3. a spout or nozzle for… …
