jato

American  

[jay-toh] / ˈdʒeɪ toʊ /

noun

• jatos
  plural

1. a jet-assisted takeoff, especially one using auxiliary rocket motors that are jettisoned at the completion of the takeoff.

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jato British  

/ ˈdʒeɪtəʊ /

noun

1. aeronautics jet-assisted takeoff

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• jatos
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of jato

1940–45; Amer.; j(et) a(ssisted) t(ake)o(ff)

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Example Sentences

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jato jatos

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

They'd fired jato rockets, all at once, and so pushed its speed up to the preposterous.

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

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 Murray Leinster

"It is now vacant and what will hold ja and jato will hold this stranger if he is not the Dor-ul-Otho."

From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The pushpots were jet motors in frames and metal skin, with built-in jato rocket tubes besides their engines.

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

Pushpots lifted it, jatos hurled it on, and then the furious, flaming take-off rockets drove it valiantly out toward the stars.

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

Mike said: "Communications says get set to fire jatos, Joe."

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

But the jatos had thrown the plane out ahead of the target area.

From Space Platform by Murray Leinster

Only when all seven firing-keys were down at the same time would any of the jatos fire.

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

I'm throwing in the series circuit for jatos.

From Space Tug by Murray Leinster

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