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Answer for the clue "Emergency seat's purpose ", 8 letters:
ejection

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Word definitions for ejection in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In sports , an ejection (also known as dismissal , sending-off , or disqualification ) is the removal of a participant from a contest due to a violation of the sport's rules. The exact violations that lead to an ejection vary depending upon the sport, but ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ejection \E*jec"tion\, n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. ['e]jection.] The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. ``Vast ejection of ashes.'' --Eustace. ``The ejection of a word.'' --Johnson. (Physiol.) The act or ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: expulsion , projection , forcing out ] the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: exclusion , expulsion , ...

Usage examples of ejection.

As the technician enabled his ejection seat, his weapons officer strapped himself into the small aft cockpit.

We know that a fraction of the ejected debris stays cool throughout the processes of impact, ejection, and interception by another world.

Beetle ejected at a forty-five-degree angle from the cockpit, fire blazing under the ejection seat as the rocket drove him through the air.

Just at the right instant, Fastball yanked down hard on the ejection handle.

Morland mentions the ejection of numerous lumbricoid worms from the mouth.

The heart: thrills, lifts, heaves, rubs, with a systolic ejection murmur at both sternal borders.

Alternate Director letter which, although much creased by now through having been folded into my shirt pocket for the cross-country expedition, worked its customary suspension of prompt ejection, and, smooth man that he was, he listened courteously to my plea for the workers at the brewery to receive their wages as usual for this present week, and for the pensioners to be paid also, while the insolvency practitioner, Mrs.

Then the detritus shuddered and she was wedged between a loose computer monitor and a lab table, queuing up for ejection.

Any questioning of the judges, quibbling, hair-splitting, or whining could yield a heavy fine, strippage, ejection, or all three.

These magnetic fields wrestled with the complex magnetohydro-dynamic weavings of the sun itself, strengthening weakened fields to control sunspots, maintaining large-scale magnetostatic equilibrium to prevent coronal mass ejections, hindering the nested magnetic loop re-connections that caused flares.

He had an infected mitral valve from God knows what, crappy coronaries, and an ejection fraction less than twenty percent.

Above him Uhura, impassive as a bronze idol, was calmly readying an ejection pod with tapes and readouts of every ship function, standard procedure in the event of a battle.

Who cared about mitral valves and ejection fractions when she had very sick babies to worry about?

After all, short of opting to punch out, backseaters had absolutely no control over what the Tomcat did with them in the air other than the ultimate veto option--the ejection seat handle.

I have always believed that the thousand calumnies which the federalists, in bitterness of heart, and mortification at their ejection, daily invented against me, were carried to him by their busy intriguers, and made some impression.