Usually means: High-speed stream of fluid.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. jet: Merriam-Webster
  2. JET, jet, jet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jet, jet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jet, jet, jet: Wordnik
  7. jet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jet, jet: Wiktionary
  9. jet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jet: Dictionary.com
  13. jet (n.), jet (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. JET (band), JET, Jet (Australian band), Jet (DC Comics), Jet (UK band), Jet (band), Jet (brand), Jet (color), Jet (disambiguation), Jet (fluid), Jet (gemstone), Jet (lignite), Jet (magazine), Jet (mathematics), Jet (name), Jet (particle physics), Jet (song), Jet (video game), Jet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jet: Rhymezone
  19. jet, jet (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. JET: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Jet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. jet: FreeDictionary.org
  24. jet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Jet: The Word Detective
  26. jet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. jet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  28. jet: Infoplease Dictionary
  29. jet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jet: Ballet
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. jet-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JET: Glossary of research economics
  2. Jet (disambiguation), jet: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Jet (disambiguation), Jet (lignite), jet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. jet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. JET: Acronym Finder
  2. JET: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. jet: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Jet: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Jet: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Jet: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. jet: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jet (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. jet, jet, jet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. jet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. Jet: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. JET: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)
  5. jet: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
noun:  A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
noun:  (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
noun:  An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
noun:  A turbine.
noun:  A rocket engine.
noun:  A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
noun:  (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
noun:  (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
noun:  (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
verb:  (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
verb:  (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
verb:  (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
verb:  To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
verb:  To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
verb:  To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
verb:  To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
adjective:  Propelled by turbine engines.
noun:  (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
noun:  The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
adjective:  Very dark black in colour.
noun:  (uncountable) A town in Oklahoma.
noun:  (countable) A unisex given name.
noun:  Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.

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