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retro-rocket: rocket fitted to vehicle to oppose forward motion,for example to bring satellite out of orbit and back to Earth
Category: Mechanical engineering

rocket: A self-propelled vehicle whose trajectory or course,while in flight,cannot be controlled.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

rocket: Missile whose motion is due to reaction propulsion and whose flight path cannot be controlled during flight.
Category: Transport

rocketplane: an airplane using a rocket or rockets for its chief or only propulsion.
Category: Transport

rocketry: , more than any single foactor provided American space officials...with the confidence that they would win the space race.
Category: Mechanical engineering

rockets: sounding instrument carried aloft by a rocket.
Category: The cosmos

rocketsonde: sounding instrument carried aloft by a rocket.
Category: The cosmos

sprocket: individual tooth or projection shaped so as to engage with a chain or wheel
Category: Transport

sprocket: a toothed cylinder or wheel that engages the perforations of a motion-picture film to carry it through a mechanism.
Category: General

sprocket: in naval mine warfare,an anti-sweep device included in a mine mooring to allow a sweep wire to pass through the mooring without parting the mine from its sinker
Category: Defense

sprocket: a dérailleur gear consists of a mechanism to move the chain from one sprocket wheel to another of different size..also sprocket, p.983..
Category: Transport

sprocket: a tooth or projection...shaped so as to engage with a chain.
Category: General

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