- downrange
- adverb Date: 1952 away from a launching site
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Downrange — is the horizontal distance traveled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft s horizontal distance from the launch site. More often, it is used as an adverb or adjective specifying the direction of that travel being measured in a horizontal direction.… … Wikipedia
downrange — ☆ downrange [doun′rānj′ ] adv., adj. along the course away from the launching site … English World dictionary
downrange — adj. /down raynj /; adv. /down raynj /, adj., adv. Rocketry. being in the designated path from a launch pad to the point on a course generally taken as the target: The signal was picked up by a downrange radar station. [1950 55; DOWN1 + RANGE] *… … Universalium
downrange — 1. adjective In the horizontal direction away from the launch site of a rocket in the direction of its travel. 2. adverb In the horizontal direction away from the … Wiktionary
downrange — adj. aimed away from a launching pad (about the path of a rocket) … English contemporary dictionary
downrange — down•range adj. [[t]ˈdaʊnˌreɪndʒ[/t]] adv. [[t] ˈreɪndʒ[/t]] adj. adv. rkt being in the designated path between a rocket launch pad and the point on a course generally taken as the target • Etymology: 1950–55 … From formal English to slang
downrange — ¦ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ adverb (or adjective) Etymology: down (III) + range (I) : away from a launching site and along the course of a test range … Useful english dictionary
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