LAUNCHING PAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does launching pad mean? 

• LAUNCHING PAD (noun)
  The noun LAUNCHING PAD has 1 sense:

1. a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

  Familiarity information: LAUNCHING PAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUNCHING PAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

launch area; launch pad; launching pad; launchpad; pad

Hypernyms ("launching pad" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Holonyms ("launching pad" is a part of...):

launching site (a place for launching pads)

 Context examples 

This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half-million miles per hour.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)