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  1. swingby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. swingby: Wordnik
  3. swingby: Wiktionary
  4. swingby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

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▸ noun:  An interplanetary flight in which the gravitational attraction of a planet is used to provide acceleration and a change in course.

Similar:
slingshot effect, gravitational slingshot, flyaround, gravity assist, spaceship, swinging, space bridge, gybe, bi-elliptic transfer, posigrade, more...

Opposite:
flyby, approach, encounter, passby

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Similar:
slingshot effect, gravitational slingshot, flyaround, gravity assist, spaceship, swinging, space bridge, gybe, bi-elliptic transfer, posigrade, more...

Opposite:
flyby, approach, encounter, passby



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