thermal barrier

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   a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating

   Synonymsheat barrier

   Broaderlimit

Questions about thermal barrier

What does thermal barrier mean?

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

What is another word for thermal barrier?

Close synonyms include heat 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 thermal barrier a common word?

thermal 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.