rocketry
rocketry noun: the making and launching of rockets, its science and practice.
Noun
rocketry (usually uncountable, plural rocketries)
- The making and launching of rockets, its science and practice.
- Sustained research in rocketry had at last succeeded in attaining one of its objectives. It had sent up a missile which stayed up. It was, in fact, possible to fire a rocket far enough up for it to fall into an orbit.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 28
- Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73
Forms of rocketry
| plural | rocketries |
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Origin of rocketry
From rocket + -ry.
Questions about rocketry
- What does rocketry mean?
- Rocketry means the making and launching of rockets, its science and practice.
- What part of speech is rocketry?
- Rocketry is a noun.
- What is the plural of rocketry?
- The plural of rocketry is rocketries.
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