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View synonyms for launch pad
launch pad
or launchpad
noun
- the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- something that serves to launch or initiate:
He used his legal experience as a launch pad for his career in politics.
launch pad
noun
- a platform from which a spacecraft, rocket, etc, is launched
- an effective starting point for a career, enterprise, or campaign
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Word History and Origins
Origin of launch pad1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
Instead, they saw music videos as a launch pad for a whole new artistic movement: virality.
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He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.
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Kelsey takes that riff further: "The show will be our ejector seat, our launch pad, our final disappearing act."
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The first mission, Apollo 1, never got off the ground after a fire killed its crew on the launch pad.
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The storms brought winds gusting up to 90 miles per hour and pelted areas near the launch pad with hailstones.
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