Usually means: Engine that propels through combustion.
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  1. rocket engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. rocket engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. rocket engine: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rocket engine: Vocabulary.com
  5. rocket engine: Wiktionary
  6. rocket engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. rocket engine: Dictionary.com
  8. Rocket engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. rocket engine: Rhymezone
  10. rocket engine: FreeDictionary.org
  11. rocket engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. rocket engine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rocket engine: Encyclopedia

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  1. rocket engine: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rocket engine)

▸ noun:  A reaction engine that obtains thrust by jet propulsion which forms its jet exclusively from propellant.

Similar:
rocket, reaction engine, jet engine, jet propulsion, liquid rocket, solid rocket, fusion rocket, arcjet, prop-jet, thrust, more...

Opposite:
jet engine, propeller engine, piston engine

Types:
solid rocket engine, more...

Phrases:
Cryogenic rocket engine, Rocket engine nozzle, more...

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Similar:
rocket, reaction engine, jet engine, jet propulsion, liquid rocket, solid rocket, fusion rocket, arcjet, prop-jet, thrust, more...

Opposite:
jet engine, propeller engine, piston engine

Types:
solid rocket engine, more...

Phrases:
Cryogenic rocket engine, Rocket engine nozzle, more...



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