thruster
291
7.4
- noun
- /ˈθrʌstər/
- Specialized
:
propulsor
- They use reaction control thrusters, little rockets, to steer the thing up and down.
OK, so that explains the thruster and the plasma.
- OK, so that explains the thruster and the plasma.
- So, you know, Elon stuff, they have thrusters on them so they can like move around all the time.
- Just the way that Tony Stark goes about designing the the thrusters to his his suit to allow him to, to fly.
- So actually, you know, kind of about this scale we build, we call them thruster chips and it's just a convenient form factor and it's a square centimeter.
Examples
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I fed a little power to the thrusters to compensate for the breeze and rose higher.
Fiction book (1999) -
The spacecraft's thruster fired to adjust its orbit around the planet.
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Control your spin, then hit your thruster before you kick.
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OK, so that explains the thruster and the plasma.
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Air pressure up, main thrusters to full!
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We'll have them squeeze into the bow thruster room forward of the crew quarters.
Fiction book (1999) -
Set it for reverse thrusters, full.
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I'm ready to fire my thrusters any time.
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Thrusters at only 30% of capacity.
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Alex successfully landed on Mars with three thrusters out and a fourth one stuck at full throttle.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
5
3.6
A machine that makes a push by throwing out its own fuel very fast for spaceships or missiles
A rocket engine that fires backward to slow a spacecraft
How Powerful
- Specialized
30
5.8
- Specialized
291
7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thruster comes from the verb thrust meaning 'push' and the ending -er meaning 'one who' or 'thing that does'. So a thruster is literally 'a thing that pushes', which is why a small rocket engine that moves a spacecraft is called a thruster.