jettison
Syllables: jet·ti·sonUK/ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩//ˈdʒɛt.ə.s(ə)n/
jettison noun: items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon to lighten the vessel.
Noun
jettison (plural jettisons)
- Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon to lighten the vessel.
- The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.
- Deep-sea divers discovered centuries-old jettison resting on the sandy seafloor.
- Synonyms:
- jetsam ballast
- The act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship or aircraft in distress.
- The captain ordered the immediate jettison of the heavy cargo to save the sinking ship.
- The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.
Verb
jettison (third-person singular simple present jettisons, present participle jettisoning, simple past and past participle jettisoned)
- To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
- The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
- The fuel tanks were jettisoned.
- To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
- Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and...1957 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
- […] the defense of horrendous behavior as “free speech”; the jettisoning of “free speech” when it served corporate purposes; the way no one seeks permission but all expect forgiveness.2018 October 30, David Streitfeld, “Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit”, in New York Times
jettison meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
jettison in Tamil
- எறிசரக்குகள், பாரம் குறைத்தல், விட்டெறி, பாரம் குறை
jettison in Bengali
- পরিত্যাগ করা, পরিহার করা
jettison in Malayalam
- എറിഞ്ഞുകളയുക, ഉപേക്ഷിക്കുക
jettison in Kannada
- ಎಸೆತ, ಅವಕ್ಷೇಪಣ, ಹೊರಗೆಸೆ, ಕೈಬಿಡು, ಪರಿತ್ಯಾಗ ಮಾಡು, ತೊರೆ
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- jettison in Gujarati
- વામવું vāmvũ
- jettison in Tagalog
- taponlulan, taponlulanin
Examples of jettison in a sentence
- This entails jettisoning, as I urge in this book, brainist and neuroist assumptions and perspectives.
- A garrison state retains its sovereign independence from foreign control or intimidation by jettisoning liberty.
- After jettison of nose cap, all the detector circuitry became exposed to the radiation environment.
Synonyms of jettison
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Antonyms
Forms of jettison
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jettisons |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jettisons |
| present participle | jettisoning |
| past participle | jettisoned |
| past | jettisoned |
Origin of jettison
From Anglo-Norman getteson, from Old French getaison, from geter, jeter (modern French: would be *jetaison like pendaison); possibly from a Vulgar Latin *iectātiō, from *iectātus < iectāre, from Latin iactō. Doublet of jetsam.
Words formed from jettison
Questions about jettison
- What does jettison mean?
- Jettison means items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon to lighten the vessel.
- What is jettison in Tamil?
- Jettison in Tamil is எறிசரக்குகள், பாரம் குறைத்தல், விட்டெறி. See Jettison meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is jettison?
- Jettison can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jettison?
- Jettison is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪsn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jettison?
- The plural of jettison is jettisons.
Words near jettison in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jettison (page history and authors); jettison (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jettison (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jettison (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jettison (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વામવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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