turbojet engine

Questions about turbojet engine

What does turbojet engine mean?

turbojet engine means "a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust".

What is another word for turbojet engine?

Close synonyms include fanjet, fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbojet, turbofan. 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 turbojet engine a common word?

turbojet 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.