GRAVITY-ASSIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("gravity-assist" is a kind of...):

flight; trajectory (the path followed by an object moving through space)

Domain category:

space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight (a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere)

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