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sonic boom

noun

a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed.

sonic boom

a loud explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an aircraft, etc, travelling at supersonic speed

sonic boom

A shock wave of compressed air caused by an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound. It is often audible as a loud, explosive sound, and it sometimes causes damage to structures on the ground.

boom, sonic

The sharp, explosive sound generated by an airplane traveling at speeds greater than the speed of sound. The sonic boom follows the aircraft much like a wake follows a ship.

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First recorded in 1950–55

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Such shock waves are sonic boom–like disturbances marked by an abrupt increase in density, temperature and pressure.

Supersonic flight over land has been prohibited since 1973, when the Federal Aviation Administration banned it due to the impact of sonic booms.

It’s analogous to an airplane passing the sound-speed barrier and creating a sonic boom.

The fundamental problem she worked on, the sonic boom, begins when an airplane pushes air molecules out of the way as it flies.

It may not be a sonic boom, but it is the pop of a starting pistol.

But the dress was its own unapologetic sonic boom—and was immediately much-copied.

Their accelerating crack-up was like a sonic boom: You heard it only after the Concorde was gone.

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