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posigrade rocket

[ poz-i-greyd ]

noun

, Rocketry.
  1. an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of posigrade rocket1

1960–65; posi(tive) + -grade (perhaps modeled on retrograde )

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