Mach

Example Sentences

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Air Force Captain Kristin "BEO" Wolfe performs the "high-speed pass" maneuver at approximately .95 mach, which is just below the speed of sound, at the 2020 Fort Lauderdale Air Show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2021

I will be curious to see what mach his framework has achieved by then.

From Forbes • Mar. 10, 2013

A minor engine problem held our speed below mach 1 for an extra 20 min., but it was corrected and we landed in Rio at 4:10 p.m. local time, 40 min. behind schedule.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Match, mach, n. a piece of inflammable material which easily takes or carries fire: a prepared rope for firing a gun, &c.: a lucifer.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various