heat barrier

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   a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating

   Synonymsthermal barrier

   Broaderlimit

Questions about heat barrier

What does heat barrier mean?

heat barrier means "a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating".

What is another word for heat barrier?

Close synonyms include thermal barrier. 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 heat barrier a common word?

heat barrier 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.