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noun Aerospace.

a measure of the effectiveness with which the combustion in a rocket engine produces high temperature and pressure, equal to the exhaust velocity divided by the thrust coefficient.

the total of all velocities a space vehicle must develop to complete a given mission.

an expression of the performance of a propellant or a propulsion system under given operating pressures.

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How to use characteristic velocity in a sentence

She said the defining characteristic of her husband was his sensitivity.
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Phone lines would catch fire from the velocity and ferocity of his words.
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He wears his characteristic white shalwar kameez with a tattered gray waistcoat.
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You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there.
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Most have been straightforward cases where the child came in with the characteristic rash.
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Fibrinous casts are characteristic of fibrinous bronchitis, but may also be found in diphtheria of the smaller bronchi.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Most characteristic is the presence of Curschmann's spirals, Charcot-Leyden crystals, and eosinophilic leukocytes.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
When pneumonia occurs during the course of a chronic bronchitis, the characteristic rusty red sputum may not appear.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd