"droneship" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/ Forms: droneships [plural]
Etymology: drone + ship, 2015 Head templates: {{en-noun}} droneship (plural droneships)
  1. A ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.
    Sense id: en-droneship-en-noun-tU8Sgpp1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "2015, Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, 14 April 2015, SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge,\nRocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Droneship, Then Fall Over and Explode, Space.com, 18 January 2016:",
          "text": "SpaceX also attempted droneship rocket landings several times in 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean, but was unsuccessful. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 6, Nick Lucchesi, It Took SpaceX These 6 Times to Perfect a Droneship Landing, Inverse: Life in Space:",
          "text": "In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so.[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 March 31, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX makes history: it launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean”, in CNN:",
          "text": "[…] the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard."
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          "drone",
          "drone"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/"
    }
  ],
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          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2016 May 6, Nick Lucchesi, It Took SpaceX These 6 Times to Perfect a Droneship Landing, Inverse: Life in Space:",
          "text": "In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so.[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "2017 March 31, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX makes history: it launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean”, in CNN:",
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