"jet engine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jet engines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} jet engine (plural jet engines)
  1. An engine that obtains thrust by taking in air at the front, using it to burn fuel, then ejecting the hot combustion products at the rear through a propulsive nozzle. Translations (engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet): motor a reacció [masculine] (Catalan), 噴氣發動機 (Chinese Mandarin), 喷气发动机 (pēnqì fādòngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), reaktivní motor [masculine] (Czech), tryskový motor [masculine] (Czech), jetmotor [common-gender] (Danish), flymotor (Danish), straalmotor [masculine] (Dutch), jetmotoro (Esperanto), suihkumoottori (Finnish), moteur à réaction [masculine] (French), Strahltriebwerk [neuter] (German), Düsentriebwerk [neuter] (German), αεριοστροβιλωθητήρας (aeriostrovilothitíras) [masculine] (Greek), sugárhajtómű (Hungarian), motor a jecto (Interlingua), motore a reazione [masculine] (Italian), ジェットエンジン (jettoenjin) (Japanese), ម៉ាស៊ីនយន្តហោះ (maasɨn-yŭən hɑh) (Khmer), 제트 엔진 (jeteu enjin) (Korean), млазен погон (mlazen pogon) [masculine] (Macedonian), jetmotor [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jetmotor [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), silnik odrzutowy [masculine] (Polish), motor a jato [masculine] (Portuguese), реакти́вный дви́гатель (reaktívnyj dvígatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), motor de reacción [masculine] (Spanish), jetmotor [common-gender] (Swedish), reamotor [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-jet_engine-en-noun-cvAiQTfA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of 'engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet': 80 20
  2. Any engine propelled by expelling a high speed fluid jet (jet propulsion), such as a rocket, turbojet, turbofan, ramjet, etc. Derived forms: fanjet, jet turbine, pulsejet, ramjet, scramjet, turbojet Related terms: duct engine, gas turbine, jet propulsion, pulse detonation engine, turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft, piston engine, rocket engine, rotary engine
    Sense id: en-jet_engine-en-noun-bTejJ7lE

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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          "_dis1": "80 20",
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          "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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          "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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          "word": "제트 엔진"
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          "roman": "reaktívnyj dvígatelʹ",
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "word": "suihkumoottori"
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "motore a reazione"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "word": "ジェットエンジン"
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
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      "word": "ម៉ាស៊ីនយន្តហោះ"
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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      "sense": "engine that obtains thrust by ejecting a jet",
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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.