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ROCKET ENGINEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rocket engineer mean?
• ROCKET ENGINEER (noun)
The noun ROCKET ENGINEER has 1 sense:
1. an engineer who builds and tests rockets
Familiarity information: ROCKET ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An engineer who builds and tests rockets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
rocket engineer; rocket scientist
Hypernyms ("rocket engineer" is a kind of...):
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
Instance hyponyms:
Braun; von Braun; Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun; Wernher von Braun (United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977))
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