"supersonic" meaning in English

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Adjective

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Rhymes: -ɒnɪk Etymology: From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super|sonic}} super- + sonic, {{doublet|en|hypersonic}} Doublet of hypersonic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} supersonic (not comparable)
  1. (of a speed) Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure). Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Aviation Related terms (sound): infrasonic, sonic Related terms (speed): plasmasonic, hypersonic, transonic, subsonic Translations (greater than the speed of sound): səsdən sürətli (Azerbaijani), звышгукавы́ (zvyšhukavý) (Belarusian), свръхзву́ков (svrǎhzvúkov) (Bulgarian), supersònic (Catalan), 超音速 (chāoyīnsù) (Chinese Mandarin), nadzvukový (Czech), supersonický (Czech), supersonisch (Dutch), supersoon (Dutch), ääntä nopeampi (Finnish), yliääni- (Finnish), supersonique (French), ზებგერითი (zebgeriti) (Georgian), Überschall- (German), υπερηχητικός (yperichitikós) (Greek), पराध्वनिक (parādhvanik) (Hindi), szuperszonikus (Hungarian), supersonico (Italian), 超音速 (chōonsoku) (alt: ちょうおんそく) (Japanese), 초음파의 (cho'eumpaui) (Korean), 초음속의 (cho'eumsogui) (Korean), स्वनातीत (svanātīt) (Marathi), дуунаас хурдан (duunaas xurdan) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), хэт дууны (xet duuny) [China, Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠡᠴᠡ ᠬᠤᠷᠳᠤᠨ (daɣun-eče qurdun) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), ᠬᠡᠲᠤ ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠦ (ketu daɣun-ü) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), supersonisk (Norwegian Bokmål), supersonisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), naddźwiękowy (Polish), supersónico [Portugal, masculine] (Portuguese), supersônico [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), supersonic (Romanian), сверхзвуково́й (sverxzvukovój) (Russian), nadzvukový (Slovak), supersónico (Spanish), överljuds- (Swedish), supersonisk (Swedish), hignugin (Tagalog), süpersonik (Turkish), надзвукови́й (nadzvukovýj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. (colloquial, of a sound) Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible. Tags: colloquial, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-supersonic-en-adj-wVGu9A2c
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: supersonic heterodyne receiver

Noun

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Rhymes: -ɒnɪk Etymology: From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super|sonic}} super- + sonic, {{doublet|en|hypersonic}} Doublet of hypersonic Head templates: {{en-noun}} supersonic (plural supersonics)
  1. An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound. Related terms: superluminal Translations (aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound): yvirljóðsflogfar [neuter] (Faroese), ზებგერითი თვითმფრინავი (zebgeriti tvitmprinavi) (Georgian), ზებგერითი საჰაერო ხომალდი (zebgeriti sahaero xomaldi) (Georgian), Überschallflugzeug [neuter] (German), överljudsplan [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-supersonic-en-noun-JOEFUy2E

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.