fanjet engine

Questions about fanjet engine

What does fanjet engine mean?

fanjet engine means "a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust".

What is another word for fanjet engine?

Close synonyms include fanjet, fan-jet, turbojet, turbojet engine, turbofan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fanjet engine a common word?

fanjet engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.