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droneship

/ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/

droneship noun: a ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.

Noun

droneship (plural droneships)

  1. A ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.
    • Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival […]2015, Alan Yuhas, The Guardian, 14 April 2015, SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge
    • SpaceX also attempted droneship rocket landings several times in 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean, but was unsuccessful. […]2016, Video Shows SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Droneship, Then Fall Over and Explode, Space.com, 18 January 2016

Examples of droneship in a sentence

  • In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so.[…]2016 May 6, Nick Lucchesi, It Took SpaceX These 6 Times to Perfect a Droneship Landing, Inverse: Life in Space:
  • […] the rocket then returned to Earth and landed on a remotely piloted platform, known as a droneship […]2017 March 31, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX makes history: it launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean”, in CNN, archived from the...

Forms of droneship

pluraldroneships

Origin of droneship

drone + ship, 2015

Questions about droneship

What does droneship mean?
Droneship means a ship that can operate autonomously or telerobotically, like a drone, without a crew onboard.
How do you use droneship in a sentence?
In the very early hours of Friday morning, a high-velocity Falcon 9 rocket landed successfully on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic, making history as the first such mission to do so.[…]
What part of speech is droneship?
Droneship is a noun.
How do you pronounce droneship?
Droneship is pronounced /ˈdɹəʊnˌʃɪp/.
What is the plural of droneship?
The plural of droneship is droneships.

Words near droneship in the dictionary

  1. droners
  2. drones
  3. drones on
  4. dronescape
  5. dronescapes
  6. droneship
  7. droneships
  8. dronesome
  9. Dronespace
  10. droneth
  11. droney

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