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soft-landing

soft-landing is the present participle and gerund of soft-land.

Meaning of soft-land

Verb

soft-land (third-person singular simple present soft-lands, present participle soft-landing, simple past and past participle soft-landed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it survives the landing mostly or entirely intact and is usable or able to operate, at least briefly, following touchdown.
    • The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were soft-landed on Mars in 2004.

Questions about soft-landing

What is soft-landing the present participle and gerund of?
Soft-landing is the present participle and gerund of soft-land.

Words near soft-landing in the dictionary

  1. soft-hearted
  2. soft-heartedly
  3. soft-heartedness
  4. soft-land
  5. soft-landed
  6. soft-landing
  7. soft-lands
  8. soft-launch
  9. soft-launched
  10. soft-launches
  11. soft-launching

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