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soft landings

soft landings is the plural of soft landing.

Meaning of soft landing

Noun (1)

soft landing (countable and uncountable, plural soft landings)

  1. (countable) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
  2. (countable) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
    • Hopes that the US economy is heading for a “soft landing” were boosted yesterday by the latest job figures, fuelling a rally in stocks and bonds.2023 November 4, Harriet Clarfelt, Jennifer Hughes, “Hopes build for US ‘soft landing’”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
  3. (uncountable) A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.

Noun (2)

soft landing (plural soft landings)

  1. (slang, rhythm games) Sudden or extreme changes in speed.

Questions about soft landings

What is soft landings the plural of?
Soft landings is the plural of soft landing.

Words near soft landings in the dictionary

  1. soft keys
  2. soft kill
  3. soft land
  4. soft landed
  5. soft landing
  6. soft landings
  7. soft lands
  8. soft launch
  9. soft launches
  10. soft link
  11. soft links

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