Jet

Definitions

1. Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A town in Oklahoma.
   uncountable
3. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
4. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
   countable, uncountable
5. an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
6. A male given name.
   countable
7. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
8. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
   countable, uncountable
9. A female given name.
   countable, rare
10. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
11. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
12. A turbine.
13. A rocket engine.
14. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
15. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
16. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
    dated
17. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
    dated

Equivalents

Examples

“In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape⟳, like⟳ sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see⟳ the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.”

“One of the other two nations to operate⟳ the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.”

““Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove⟳ the nose from AF-27 and put⟳ it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add⟳ back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report⟳ from the F-35 JPO said.”

“There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.”

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