rocket firing rocket launching | the launching of a rocket or missile under its own power |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
anti-submarine rocket | a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines |
booster booster rocket booster unit takeoff booster takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
launcher rocket launcher | armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket |
multistage rocket step rocket | a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted |
nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
rocket rocket engine | a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion |
rocket projectile | any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine |
rocket base | a military base for rocket missiles |
rocket range | a firing range for rocket missiles |
skyrocket rocket | sends a firework display high into the sky |
sounding rocket | a research rocket used to obtain information about the atmosphere at various altitudes |
space rocket | a rocket powerful enough to travel into outer space |
test rocket research rocket test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
slant angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
rocket skyrocket | propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
rocket engineer rocket scientist | an engineer who builds and tests rockets |
rocket scientist | a clever thinker, you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out |
incidence | the striking of a light beam on a surface, he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light |
rocket propulsion | reaction propulsion using stored oxygen for combustion, used where there is insufficient atmospheric oxygen |
rocket larkspur Consolida ambigua Delphinium ajacis | commonly cultivated larkspur of southern Europe having unbranched spikelike racemes of blue or sometimes purplish or pinkish flowers, sometime placed in genus Delphinium |
yellow rocket rockcress rocket cress Barbarea vulgaris Sisymbrium barbarea | noxious cress with yellow flowers, sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium |
prairie rocket | any of several western American plants of the genus Cheiranthus having large yellow flowers |
wall rocket Diplotaxis muralis Diplotaxis tenuifolia | yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places, an adventive weed in North America |
white rocket Diplotaxis erucoides | from Mediterranean region, a naturalized weed throughout southern Europe |
rocket roquette garden rocket rocket salad arugula Eruca sativa Eruca vesicaria sativa | erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender |
prairie rocket | any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers |
damask violet Dame's violet sweet rocket Hesperis matronalis | long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening, naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |
tansy-leaved rocket Hugueninia tanacetifolia Sisymbrium tanacetifolia | perennial stellate and hairy herb with small yellow flowers of mountains of southern Europe, sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium |
dyer's rocket dyer's mignonette weld Reseda luteola | European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye, naturalized in North America |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
incidence relative incidence | the relative frequency of occurrence of something |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |