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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. Irregular burning of fuel left in the firing chamber or a rocket after fuel cutoff.2. The function of an afterburner, a device for augmenting the thrust of a jet engine by burning additional fuel in the uncombined oxygen in the gases from the turbine. (references) |
Military | 1. The characteristic of some rocket motors to burn irregularly for some time after the main burning and thrust has ceased. 2. The process of fuel injection and combustion in the exhaust jet of a turbojet engine (aft or to the rear of the turbine). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AFTERBURNING |
| Specialty definitions using "AFTERBURNING": thrust augmentation. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "AFTERBURNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të djegurit (burning, cauterization, cautery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | догаряне. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utóégetés (after-bake), utánégés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | afterburningay догорание топлива. (various references) sagorevanje (combustion). (various references) efterbränning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-g-i-n-n-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: interurban, renaturing. | |
-3 letters: bantering, bartering, featuring, garniture, returning, unbarring, unbearing. | |
-4 letters: argufier, berating, brannier, braunite, fibranne, figurant, figurate, firebrat, fruitage, inerrant, inurbane, rebating, refuting, retuning, tabering, unerring, unfairer, urbanite. | |
-5 letters: aginner, aneurin, angrier, anguine, anteing, antibug, antifur, antigen, antigun, arbiter, banteng, barefit, barfing, barnier, barring, beaning, bearing, beating, branner, bringer, bruiter, bruting, bunting, burning. | |
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