afterburning
Americannoun
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Aeronautics. combustion in an afterburner that results from the injection of fuel into the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust with more efficient fuel consumption.
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Rocketry. an irregular burning of residual fuel in some rocket motors after the cessation of the main burning.
noun
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Also called: reheat. a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust
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irregular burning of fuel in a rocket motor after the main burning has ceased
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persistence of combustion in an internal-combustion engine, either in an incorrect part of the cycle or after the ignition has been switched off
Etymology
Origin of afterburning
Example Sentences
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The two-man, 1,650-m.p.h. plane is equipped with the world's first afterburning turbofan engines, has a revolutionary swing-wing�the sort envisioned in one of the designs for the nation's first commercial supersonic transport.
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