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boostglide

boostglide adjective: describing an aircraft or missile that uses rocket propulsion to gain a very high altitude and then glides to increase its range.

Adjective

boostglide (not comparable)

  1. Describing an aircraft or missile that uses rocket propulsion to gain a very high altitude and then glides to increase its range.

Forms of boostglide

alternative formboost-glide

Origin of boostglide

From boost + glide.

Questions about boostglide

What does boostglide mean?
Boostglide means describing an aircraft or missile that uses rocket propulsion to gain a very high altitude and then glides to increase its range.
What part of speech is boostglide?
Boostglide is an adjective.

Words near boostglide in the dictionary

  1. boosterism
  2. boosterisms
  3. boosterist
  4. boosterless
  5. boosters
  6. boostglide
  7. boosting
  8. boostings
  9. boosts
  10. boosy
  11. boot

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