"soft landing" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: soft landings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} soft landing (countable and uncountable, plural soft landings)
  1. (countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Aeronautics Translations (landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle): aterratge suau [masculine] (Catalan), zachte landing [feminine] (Dutch), atterrissage en douceur [masculine] (French), weiche Landung [feminine] (German), atterraggio morbido [masculine] (Italian), мя́гкая поса́дка (mjáxkaja posádka) (Russian), aterrizaje suave [masculine] (Spanish), м'яка́ поса́дка (mʺjaká posádka) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-soft_landing-en-noun-RQAqKl0o Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload and/or the vehicle': 92 3 5
  2. (countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Economics
    Sense id: en-soft_landing-en-noun-DDC9s4zX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 25 33 2 30 Topics: economics, science, sciences
  3. (uncountable, chemistry) A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Chemistry
    Sense id: en-soft_landing-en-noun-RIsjF669 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 25 33 2 30 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: soft landings [plural]
Etymology: From the beatmania IIDX 2nd style song "SOFT LANDING ON THE BODY". Head templates: {{en-noun}} soft landing (plural soft landings)
  1. (rhythm games, slang) Sudden or extreme changes in speed. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-soft_landing-en-noun-CvlDRzwU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} soft landing
  1. present participle and gerund of soft land Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: soft land
    Sense id: en-soft_landing-en-verb-8s3QF~RL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 25 33 2 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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