"nuclear rocket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nuclear rockets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nuclear rocket (plural nuclear rockets)
  1. (space flight) A rocket with a nuclear reactor aboard.
    Sense id: en-nuclear_rocket-en-noun-Z1yKkl-1 Categories (other): Space flight
  2. (space flight) A rocket where a nuclear process, especially an on-board fission reactor, enables thrust to be produced.
    Sense id: en-nuclear_rocket-en-noun-6-6gWfym Categories (other): Space flight, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Nuclear rocketry, Rocketry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 94 Disambiguation of Nuclear rocketry: 29 71 Disambiguation of Rocketry: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: fission rocket, fusion rocket, nuclear-electric rocket, nuclear-pulse rocket, nuclear-thermal rocket Related terms: anti-matter rocket, chemical rocket, ion engine

Inflected forms

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