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launcher

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket [syn: rocket launcher ] a device that launches aircraft from a warship [syn: catapult ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who or that which launches. A device that throws something or the person who initiates a launch. 2 (context computing English) An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
launcher \launcher\ n. a device capable of launching a rocket. Syn: rocket launcher. A device which launches aircraft from an aircraft carrier; -- it provides additional velocity to the airplane, to supplement that from the airplane's engines, so that ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE mobile ▪ The mobile launcher sat on pedestals over a 17.7 m wide flame trench. ▪ The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system. ▪ The crawler, mobile launchers and ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Launcher may refer to: Application launcher , a kind of utility software Rocket launcher , a device that launches a rocket-propelled projectile Grenade launcher , a weapon that launches a specially-designed grenade Launch vehicle , a rocket used to carry ...

Usage examples of launcher.

That was a minor vessel, readily expendable, though formidable enough, a hundred-meter spheroid abristle with guns, missile launchers, energy projectors.

We might not have enough forces to aggressively seek out and suppress Iraqi artillery and multiple-rocket launchers that Iraq would use to fire chemical and possibly biological weapons at our troops.

Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.

Odessa who brokered their deal with the North Korean for the cesium and the North Korean missile launcher.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

Guns, lasers, and missile launchers were still in place in the sur-rounding mountains, and the control room from which Hox personally oversaw defenses was still visited annually by tens of thousands.

Guns, lasers, and missile launchers were still in place in the surrounding mountains, and the control room from which Hox personally oversaw defenses was still visited annually by tens of thousands.

Agnelli had inspected the neady stacked and, in the case of the missiles and launchers, highly gleaming contents of the truck and was now actually rubbmg his hands together.

It was hard to imagine how even the grubs at Noware could expect him to make chainguns and rocket launchers seem sweet and innocent.

Theiu had visited Base XII to watch Amarson fly the new dart launchers in combat, the Riverman had sprayed himself every minute or so.

The others in the Mountain Man team shifted into position, checking out sniperscopes, tear gas launchers, and the like.

The counter-mass, a kilogram of harmless plastic chips, sprayed behind the launcher as the rocket shot from the tube.

Viale sent back after his rocket launcher, who came tearing across the bridge as Viale, the squad leader, and the BAR man all fired toward this last obstacle.

Knife came out of the mouth of the trail onto the bottom of Many Deer Canyon like a gren out of a launcher, whooping and firing his old Remington pistol in the morning air.

Railgun launchers shot barrels of pure hydrogen ice up to a drifting ekti reactor that would catalyze the hydrogen into ekti, the valuable allotrope used as stardrive fuel.