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hybrid rocket

noun

Etymology

From hybrid (“fuel”) + rocket.

  1. derived from *rukkô✻ — “a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”
  2. derived from *rokkō✻
  3. derived from rocko — “spinning wheel”
  4. derived from rocchetta
  5. compounded as hybrid rocket — “hybrid + rocket”

Definitions

  1. a bipropellant rocket engine (rocket motor) which uses propellants that are in two…

    a bipropellant rocket engine (rocket motor) which uses propellants that are in two different states, typically liquid and solid, which when reacted, create exhaust gases suitable for rocket propulsion.

  2. a vehicle (rocket) propelled by a hybrid rocket engine

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