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ROCKET ENGINEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An engineer who builds and tests rockets
Synonyms:
rocket engineer; rocket scientist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rocket engineer" is a kind of...):
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
Instance hyponyms:
Braun; von Braun; Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun; Wernher von Braun (United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977))