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staging

staging

1 8.1
Dropping a used part of a rocket during flight so the next engine can fire
  • noun
  • /ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : separación de etapas
  • Houston, you are a go for staging.

Examples

  • Staging should be in the next 30 seconds.

    Capricorn One (1977)

  • Uniform 64 approaching staging area.

    Black Hawk Down (2001)

  • Agent 14, report to the staging area.

    The China Syndrome (1979)

  • - We're go for staging.

    Capricorn One (1977)

  • Roger, Houston, you are go for staging.

    In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

  • - We reached staging.

    Capricorn One (1977)

  • Staging has long been accepted as the best single determinant of survival in patients with laryngeal cancer.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The prognostic ability of the comorbidity indices was compared to the TNM staging system for tumor-specific survival.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In the late 1980s, Abdel Rahman was a visitor to Peshawar, Pakistan, the staging area for the CIA-supported effort to defeat the Soviets.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The successful staging of the rocket occurred at the correct altitude during the launch.

Compounds

staging area
  • Jargon
16 6.4

A place where soldiers and equipment gather and get ready before a mission

key staging post
6.7

An important stop that helps people or goods move forward

Surface Forms

staging singular
stagings plural

Morphology

staging = stage (semi-transparent) = stage + ing

This is a regular '-ing' noun based on 'stage', but the rocket-specific sense is technical and only partly predictable from the base word alone.

Etymology

Staging here comes from the word stage, which originally meant a 'place to stand' or a 'step' on a journey, like a stop on a road. So in rockets, staging is the dropping of one 'step' or part so the next step can continue the flight.