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noun

Aerospace. a trajectory that uses the gravitational field of one celestial body to alter the course of a spacecraft destined for another body.

Origin of swing by

1960–65, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase swing by

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British Dictionary definitions for swing by

swing by

verb

(preposition) informal to go somewhere to pay a visit

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