jet engine

NOUN

gas airplane engine

Synonyms

WEAK

fanjet pulsejet ramjet reaction engine rocket rocket motor turbofan turbojet turboprop

Example Sentences

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The billionaire founder of Amazon.com is co-leading a new AI business called Prometheus, which plans to build an “artificial general engineer” that can design and manufacture complex physical products such as a jet engine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Reaching Mach 5 involves the use of a so-called ramjet, which is similar to a traditional jet engine but doesn’t have any moving parts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

If a data center wants to roar like a jet engine all night, that’s the deal.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

The Symphony turbine jet engine will power Boom’s Overture supersonic jet.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

Leaves rustling in the wind are about 10 decibels; a jet engine is about 120 decibels.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones