Meaning of Jet Age | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by the social change this brought about.
   historical
2. Alternative letter-case form of Jet Age.
   alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]”

“American commercial aviation stands at the threshold of the jet age. That it will make⟳ the transition is now a settled issue⟳, and the one remaining question⟳ is when.”

“The Nazis had launched the jet age in 1939 with a fighter plane, the avant-garde Heinkel He 178, but were hardly in shape⟳ after the war to exploit this technological advantage.”

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