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V2

noun

Etymology

From velocity, where this is the second important velocity.

Definitions

  1. The airspeed at which an aircraft leaves the runway on takeoff.

  2. Alternative form of V-twin.

  3. Alternative form of V-2 (WWII rocket)

    • Mr. A. J. Somers writes to say that the "V2" which caused the scrapping of "J17" 0-6-0, No. 8200, was not of the 2-6-2 type, but a considerably more destructive German rocket!
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Abbreviation of verb-second (word order).

      • As all the Germanic languages are V2 languages (except English, which also has neither object shift nor scrambling), and as as the examples are main clauses without auxiliary verbs, the main verb has moved to C.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for V2. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA