SOFT LANDING

  

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SOFT LANDING

Specialty Definition: SOFT LANDING

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Aerospace

The act of landing on the surface of a planet without damage to any portion of the vehicle or payload except possibly the landing gear. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SOFT LANDING

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Economic History

Slovak Rep

The Slovak government was able to engineer this soft landing by raising administered prices, increasing taxes, and holding firm on expenditures. (references)

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Expression: SOFT LANDING

Expression using "SOFT LANDING": make a soft landing. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: SOFT LANDING

Language Translations for "SOFT LANDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏هبوط سهل, ‏تغير سلمي. (various references)

   

French

  

atterrissage en douceur. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ομαλή προσγείωση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

soluzione indolore, atterraggio morbido. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oftsay andinglay

   

Portuguese

  

aterrissagem suave. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мягкая посадка. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aterrizaje suave. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mjuklanda (make a soft landing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SOFT LANDING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-i-l-n-n-o-s-t"

-2 letters: fondlings.

-3 letters: antilogs, antlions, donating, fatlings, floating, fondants, fondling, fontinas, landings, loadings, loanings, nontidal, sandling, slanting, solating, standing.

-4 letters: agonist, anoints, antilog, antings, antlion, atoning, daltons, dialogs, diglots, doating, fadings, fanions, fantods, fasting, fatling, flagons, foaling, folding, fondant, fonding, fontina, galiots, ganoids, gitanos, infants, infolds, inlands, ladings, ladinos, landing, lasting, latigos, latinos, ligands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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