Zond
[ zawnd ]
noun
one of a series of Soviet space probes that photographed the moon and returned to earth.
Origin of Zond
1First recorded in 1964; from Russian: originally, “surgical probe,” from French sonde “plumb line”; z- perhaps due to German Sonde (from French ); see origin at sonde
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Trebizond (treb'i-Zond'), province in northeastern Asia Minor.
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British Dictionary definitions for Zond
Zond
/ (zɒnd) /
noun
any of a series of unmanned Soviet spacecraft, first launched in 1964 as interplanetary space probes, the most successful of which, Zond 3, sent back photographs of the hidden side of the moon in 1965
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