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Jet Age

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Etymology

Coined in the late 1940s.

Definitions

  1. A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by…

    A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by the social change this brought about.

    • Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]
    • American commercial aviation stands at the threshold of the jet age. That it will make the transition is now a settled issue, and the one remaining question is when.
    • The Nazis had launched the jet age in 1939 with a fighter plane, the avant-garde Heinkel He 178, but were hardly in shape after the war to exploit this technological advantage.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Jet Age.

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