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View definitions for reaction engine

reaction engine

noun as in jet engine

noun as in rocket engine

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Out of the port they could see the red flare of a reaction engine; the next ship in their sector, speeding forward.

This also was the invention of Hero, and was a reaction engine, on the principle of the eolipile.

It revolved by the agency of steam, and was of the form that we should now call a reaction-engine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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