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V-2
or V-two
[ vee-too ]
noun
, plural V-2's.
- a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.
V-2
noun
- a rocket-powered ballistic missile invented by the Germans in World War II: used esp to bombard London. It used ethanol as fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer
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Word History and Origins
Origin of V-21
see V-1
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Example Sentences
There were newsreel shots of V-1 and V-2 being blasted from their takeoff ramps and a montage of later experimental models.
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Bannister once described to me the firing of a prototype V-2.
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If the first jar be discharged into the second, V, since the capacity is now doubled, falls to V/2.
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