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prelanding

prelanding adjective: before the landing of a vehicle.

Adjective

prelanding (not comparable)

  1. Before the landing of a vehicle.
    • The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft.2008 June 14, John Schwartz, “No Problems Seen for Shuttle Landing”, in New York Times

Origin of prelanding

From pre- + landing.

Questions about prelanding

What does prelanding mean?
Prelanding means before the landing of a vehicle.
What part of speech is prelanding?
Prelanding is an adjective.

Words near prelanding in the dictionary

  1. prelamin
  2. prelaminar
  3. prelaminated
  4. prelamination
  5. prelamins
  6. prelanding
  7. prelanguage
  8. prelanguages
  9. prelap
  10. prelaparoscopic
  11. prelaps

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