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Business end of a missile
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payload
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 That part of a cargo that produces revenue 2 The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment(,) and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft 3 That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger(,) or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or ...
WordNet
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n. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents [syn: warhead , load ] goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo , lading , freight , load , loading , shipment ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bay ▪ This gives access to the huge payload bay . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The shuttle's main payload will be a 37,300-pound satellite. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However the shuttle is purpose-built to lift payloads ...
Usage examples of payload.
This was where the big payload ships rode their boosters up through the atmosphere or glided back to Earth with their airfoils extended.
The payload would be off doing what they did best and she would have six spring-coiled booties looking for something to keep them occupied.
Neither the RSV or the shuttle were capable of getting to geosynchronous orbit at all by themselves, though they could get a payload there with a booster.
It had never been adapted to military use because its payload was so small, but commercial and nonmilitary governmental agencies had found the craft very suitable for their requirements.
Curious Yellow, or why, because Curious Yellow appears to have been created for the sole purpose of delivering a psywar payload designed to erase all memories and data pertaining to something or other.
Mostly controlled crashes, survivable for unicells, and a few larger payloads with bunker-buster warheads to deliver the same organisms below the surface of the planet where we suspect the presence of buried water.
A particular worry was the deadly C-802, a sleek, sharklike antiship cruise missile that could also deliver a chemical or biological payload.
All of the bouncers were fitted with external symbols on the inside of the box-- which they now knew racks for nuclear payloads to be used in case of national belonged to a language called high rune--that the early emergency.
The big deal was to put payloads into orbit, and that was the route that most entrepreneurs took.
And if an alien invasion were in progress, why would the Air Force, traditionally led by pilots, step back from manned spaceflight and launch all its payloads on unmanned boosters?
It spreads, slow and thick, meaningless codes and numbers oozing like molasses, clogging the more delicate traps, overloading the fine triggers until one by one the traps fire or fizzle, releasing payloads that are lost at once in the sea of garbage.
We had some subsystems aboard the shuttles and used to rent payload space aboard them every once in a while.
The trebuchets looked ungainly - oversized slingshots with heavy wooden beams bracing the armature for the firing paddle, which was winched back by stout hemp ropes, then released to snap upward, flinging its payload over the castle walls.
The payload bay doors hinged shut, bringing Greg one step closer to Zanthus.
We will deliver a fifteen feet by eighty-two feet useable payload space, of which fifteen by sixty is capable of changeout on the pad.