ROCKET PROPELLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rocket propellant mean? 

• ROCKET PROPELLANT (noun)
  The noun ROCKET PROPELLANT has 1 sense:

1. an explosive charge that propels a rocket

  Familiarity information: ROCKET PROPELLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKET PROPELLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An explosive charge that propels a rocket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

rocket fuel; rocket propellant; rocket propellent

Hypernyms ("rocket propellant" is a kind of...):

burster; bursting charge; charge; explosive charge (a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time)

propellant; propellent (any substance that propels)

Meronyms (parts of "rocket propellant"):

hydrazine (a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels)

 Context examples 

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)