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posigrade rocket
[ poz-i-greyd ]
noun
, Rocketry.
- an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of posigrade rocket1
1960–65; posi(tive) + -grade (perhaps modeled on retrograde )
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