pulsejet engine

or pulse-jet engine

[ puhls-jet ]

nounAeronautics.

a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.

Origin of pulsejet engine

¹

First recorded in 1945–50; pulse¹ + jet¹

Also called pulsejet, pulse-jet, aeropulse.

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