rocket range
- noun
- Specialized
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campo de lanzamiento de cohetes
- Israeli casualties are 3 killed in Kiryat Malachi, over 50 injured, and there have been a sharp number of El Al and hotel cancellations on tourist bookings to the Holy Land; the city of Jerusalem is now within Hamas rocket range.
Examples
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The rocket attacks will come to a permanent end when there are no living Muslims within rocket range, not before.
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Israel was urging members of communities within rocket range to stay close to home on Sunday in case it became necessary to head into bomb shelters.
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The scientists conducted tests at the newly established rocket range to improve missile accuracy.
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The military announced plans to expand the rocket range in order to accommodate larger launch vehicles.
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Engineers at the rocket range monitored the launches closely to ensure all safety protocols were followed.
Synonyms
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4.9
A place where people test machines, vehicles, or weapons
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9.9
A place where rockets and spacecraft are launched into space
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5.4
A place with machines to send rockets or satellites into space
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4.0
A place where rockets or spaceships start their flight
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'range' as a testing or firing facility combined with 'rocket' yields a facility/area for rockets. This noun–noun compounding follows a common English pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Rocket range is a plain, literal name: a rocket is launched on a range, which is a safe open area for tests. That's why it means 'a place where rockets are safely tested or launched'.