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nose cone
noun as in front heat shield
Weak matches
Example Sentences
SpaceX's Starship vehicle measures 50 meters from its nose cone to landing legs.
As they mounted the crane again Rick looked up at the festooned cables that terminated in the nose cone.
He kept right on going until his head banged painfully on the bottom of the nose-cone radar unit.
Instead of burying the missile deeper, the grenade explosion had uncovered the entire nose cone and part of the section behind it!
There was no doubt he had uncovered the nose cone of the missile which had re-entered the earth's atmosphere tailfirst!
In ten seconds the nose cone turned from cherry-red to white heat and began sloughing its outer ceramic coating.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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