"bow shock" meaning in English

See bow shock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈbaʊʃɑk/ Forms: bow shocks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bow shock (plural bow shocks)
  1. (fluid dynamics) A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed. Categories (topical): Fluid dynamics Synonyms: detached shock [aviation, aeronautics, aerospace, engineering, business, physical-sciences, natural-sciences, fluid-dynamics, physics, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] Related terms: termination shock [astronomy, natural-sciences], interstellar space [astronomy, natural-sciences]
    Sense id: en-bow_shock-en-noun-~hW01kEB Topics: fluid-dynamics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  2. (astronomy) The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic. Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations (astronomy): iskurintama (Finnish), iskuaaltorintama (Finnish), onde de shock (French)
    Sense id: en-bow_shock-en-noun-PtyeBQVo Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'astronomy': 14 83 3
  3. A bow wave.
    Sense id: en-bow_shock-en-noun-DS4AVXjF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 28 56

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for bow shock meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bow shocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bow shock (plural bow shocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fluid dynamics",
          "orig": "en:Fluid dynamics",
          "parents": [
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed."
      ],
      "id": "en-bow_shock-en-noun-~hW01kEB",
      "links": [
        [
          "fluid dynamics",
          "fluid dynamics"
        ],
        [
          "shock wave",
          "shock wave"
        ],
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ],
        [
          "supersonic",
          "supersonic"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fluid dynamics) A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 0 36",
          "topics": [
            "astronomy",
            "natural-sciences"
          ],
          "word": "termination shock"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "64 0 36",
          "topics": [
            "astronomy",
            "natural-sciences"
          ],
          "word": "interstellar space"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "64 0 36",
          "topics": [
            "aviation",
            "aeronautics",
            "aerospace",
            "engineering",
            "business",
            "physical-sciences",
            "natural-sciences",
            "fluid-dynamics",
            "physics",
            "physical-sciences",
            "natural-sciences"
          ],
          "word": "detached shock"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fluid-dynamics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "en:Astronomy",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic."
      ],
      "id": "en-bow_shock-en-noun-PtyeBQVo",
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "magnetosphere",
          "magnetosphere"
        ],
        [
          "solar wind",
          "solar wind"
        ],
        [
          "supersonic",
          "supersonic"
        ],
        [
          "subsonic",
          "subsonic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "14 83 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "astronomy",
          "word": "iskurintama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 83 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "astronomy",
          "word": "iskuaaltorintama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "14 83 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "astronomy",
          "word": "onde de shock"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 28 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bow wave."
      ],
      "id": "en-bow_shock-en-noun-DS4AVXjF",
      "links": [
        [
          "bow wave",
          "bow wave"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbaʊʃɑk/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "bow shock",
    "bow shock (aerodynamics)"
  ],
  "word": "bow shock"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bow shocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bow shock (plural bow shocks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "termination shock"
    },
    {
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "interstellar space"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Fluid dynamics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fluid dynamics",
          "fluid dynamics"
        ],
        [
          "shock wave",
          "shock wave"
        ],
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ],
        [
          "supersonic",
          "supersonic"
        ],
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fluid dynamics) A shock wave formed by the bow of an object travelling at supersonic speed."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fluid-dynamics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "magnetosphere",
          "magnetosphere"
        ],
        [
          "solar wind",
          "solar wind"
        ],
        [
          "supersonic",
          "supersonic"
        ],
        [
          "subsonic",
          "subsonic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) The region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A bow wave."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow wave",
          "bow wave"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbaʊʃɑk/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "aviation",
        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "engineering",
        "business",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences",
        "fluid-dynamics",
        "physics",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "detached shock"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "astronomy",
      "word": "iskurintama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "astronomy",
      "word": "iskuaaltorintama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "astronomy",
      "word": "onde de shock"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "bow shock",
    "bow shock (aerodynamics)"
  ],
  "word": "bow shock"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.