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GRAVITY-ASSIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("gravity-assist" is a kind of...):
flight; trajectory (the path followed by an object moving through space)
Domain category:
space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight (a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere)
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