sonic barrier

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   the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound

   Synonymssound barrier

   Broaderdrag

Questions about sonic barrier

What does sonic barrier mean?

sonic barrier means "the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound".

What is another word for sonic barrier?

Close synonyms include sound 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 sonic barrier a common word?

sonic 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.