rocket engine

Questions about rocket engine

What does rocket engine mean?

rocket engine means "a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion".

What is another word for rocket engine?

Close synonyms include rocket. 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 rocket engine a common word?

rocket 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.