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reaction engine

noun as in rocket engine

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His system is, as the firm’s name implies, a reaction engine.

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Out of the port they could see the red flare of a reaction engine; the next ship in their sector, speeding forward.

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This also was the invention of Hero, and was a reaction engine, on the principle of the eolipile.

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Broadly, reaction engines come in two varieties—rockets and jets—in which hot gases created by burning fuel are ejected out of the back, providing the action part of the law.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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