jato
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of jato
1940–45; Amer.; j(et) a(ssisted) t(ake)o(ff)
Example Sentences
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But the U.S.'s Alexander Calder's finely drawn glass wire twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the jato thrust, it was traveling nearly 3,400 miles per hour.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
They'd fired jato rockets, all at once, and so pushed its speed up to the preposterous.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
Every jato in every pushpot about every launching cage fired at once.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
And a monstrous jato rocket, built into each and every one of the pushpots outside, flared chemical fumes in a simultaneous, gigantic thrust.
From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray
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