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deorbit burn

noun

Etymology

From deorbit + burn.

  1. derived from *bʰrenw-✻
  2. derived from *brinnaną✻
  3. borrowed from brinna
  4. inherited from burne
  5. compounded as deorbit burn — “deorbit + burn”

Definitions

  1. A firing of the engines of a spacecraft to enable it to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for deorbit burn. 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