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SPACEFLIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spaceflight mean?
• SPACEFLIGHT (noun)
The noun SPACEFLIGHT has 1 sense:
1. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
Familiarity information: SPACEFLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight
Hypernyms ("spaceflight" is a kind of...):
voyage (a journey to some distant place)
Domain member category:
gravity-assist ((spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field)
Context examples
When gravity is greatly reduced—as in spaceflight—we no longer use our muscles to resist the usual pull of a planetary mass, and, without additional exercise astronauts lose both bone and muscle.
(Roundworms have the Right Stuff, NASA)
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