sustainer
a person or thing that sustains.
Rocketry.
any stage of a multistage rocket or guided missile that sustains flight after the burnout of the booster.
the rocket engine or cluster of engines contained in such a stage.
Origin of sustainer
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How to use sustainer in a sentence
These are our soldiers, thought I, these our sustainers, these the very parents of our life.
The double is weakened or killed by the mutilation of these his sustainers.
Salt caravans are the chief sustainers of the lines of commerce in North Africa.
The Art of Travel | Francis GaltonThis condenser delivered the weight of the sustainers in water every five minutes.
Artificial and Natural Flight | Hiram S. MaximMr. Scrivener and Captain Smith were now in fact the sustainers of the colony.
Captain John Smith | Charles Dudley Warner
British Dictionary definitions for sustainer
/ (səˈsteɪnə) /
a rocket engine that maintains the velocity of a space vehicle after the booster has been jettisoned
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