Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A seat in a military aircraft which allows the pilot or other crew members to quickly escape in the case of emergency using an explosive charge or rockets.
WordNet
n. a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute [syn: ejection seat, capsule]
Wikipedia
An ejector seat or ejection seat is an aircraft emergency exit device.
Ejector Seat or ejection seat may also refer to:
- Ejector Seat, UK game show
- Ejector Seat Reservation, Swervedriver album
- Reverse bungee, catapult bungee, or sling shot, a fairground thrill ride
Ejector Seat is a British game show, presented by former Children's BBC presenter Andi Peters, that aired on ITV from 28 April to 22 June 2014.
The show features a £10,000 jackpot, and for it, contestants are required to sit in commodious armchairs and answer questions. If they answered their question correctly, they could 'sit tight' but if they did not, they would find themselves told 'you're on the move' and would move backwards towards 'the edge'; if they hit the edge, they will be ejected. In an interview with the Gloucestershire Echo, Peters stated that it was not answering the questions that was difficult; it was answering them whilst on the move that contestants struggled with.
Usage examples of "ejector seat".
The cockpit canopy blasted away, and the newly installed ejector seat flung her up through the water.
Shock waves slammed upward, nipping at Franky's heels as her ejector seat burst free of the wave tops like the cork from a shaken bottle of champagne.
The Mig went down in flames, and his ejector seat didn't work, so he opened the canopy manually and jumped out against the slipstream.
On top of the railway tracks he fits what looks like an ejector seat, stirring childhood memories of James Bond and pilots bailing out over enemy territory.
Once he removed these two and set them aside, he would have to reattach the astromech socket and its ejector seat.
This in turn, Jake reasoned, had Ally reaching for the ejector seat.
Unfortunately the Martin Baker ejector seat cannot be fitted to the single seat Vampire which is notorious for being almost impossible to bale out of, the only two successful candidates living lost their legs in the process.
To make the comparison fair, we should have to assume that built into each typist's chair is a gun, wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot, his place being taken by a reserve typist (squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line, but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection).