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terminal velocity

noun

  1. Physics.
    1. the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity.
    2. the maximum velocity of a body falling through a viscous fluid.
  2. Rocketry, Ballistics.
    1. the greatest speed that a rocket, missile, etc., attains after burnout or after leaving the barrel of a gun.
    2. the speed of a missile or projectile on impact with its target.


terminal velocity

noun

  1. the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling under gravity through a fluid, esp the atmosphere
  2. the velocity of a missile or projectile when it reaches its target
  3. the maximum velocity attained by a rocket, missile, or shell flying in a parabolic flight path
  4. the maximum velocity that an aircraft can attain, as determined by its total drag
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Ball and closely-prisoned man plummeted downward; slowing abruptly, with a horrible deceleration, to terminal velocity.

But the terminal velocity of an airplane is a lot more than that.

These were to demonstrate that the ship would dive to terminal velocity.

I went out to do the terminal-velocity dive with the nine-g pull-out.

Then I would do the grand dive of ten thousand feet to terminal velocity and pull out to nine g.

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