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THERMAL BARRIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thermal barrier mean?
• THERMAL BARRIER (noun)
The noun THERMAL BARRIER has 1 sense:
1. a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating
Familiarity information: THERMAL BARRIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
heat barrier; thermal barrier
Hypernyms ("thermal barrier" is a kind of...):
bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)
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