reaction propulsion

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   propulsion that results from the ejection at high velocity of a mass of gas to which the vehicle reacts with an equal and opposite momentum

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Questions about reaction propulsion

What does reaction propulsion mean?

reaction propulsion means "propulsion that results from the ejection at high velocity of a mass of gas to which the vehicle reacts with an equal and opposite momentum".

Is reaction propulsion a common word?

reaction propulsion 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.