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unstarts

unstarts is the plural of unstart.

Meaning of unstart

Noun

unstart (plural unstarts)

  1. A sudden compressor stall that can occur in the jet engines of supersonic aircraft.
    • Jim Eastham, one of the original SR-71 test pilots, vividly remembers unstarts: “An unstart demands your full and undivided attention,” he recalls.1988 November, T. A. Heppenheimer, quoting Jim Eastham, “Mach 5 spy plane”, in Popular Science, volume 233, number 5, →ISSN, page 114

Questions about unstarts

What is unstarts the plural of?
Unstarts is the plural of unstart.

Words near unstarts in the dictionary

  1. unstarted
  2. unstarting
  3. unstartled
  4. unstartling
  5. unstartlingly
  6. unstarts
  7. unstarved
  8. unstatable
  9. unstate
  10. unstateable
  11. unstated

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