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Wiktionary
n. A device in the engine of an aircraft which injects fuel into the exhaust system to increase the thrust.
WordNet
n. a device injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust
Wikipedia
An afterburner is an addition to a jet engine to increase thrust.
Afterburner may also refer to:
Afterburner is the ninth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). Afterburner was a financial success, going several times platinum and launching several hit singles, the most successful of which was "Sleeping Bag" which peaked at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the UK, it was the band's second album to be certified by the British Phonographic Industry, attaining Gold (100,000 units) in 1985. In 1990, it was certified Platinum (300,000 units), to date their final Platinum certification in the UK.
The song "Can't Stop Rockin'" was used in the 1993 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. The song "Velcro Fly" was an element in Stephen King's The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands; Eddie keeps hearing drums playing in the distance and thinks it sounds like, then later realizes it is, the drum track for "Velcro Fly".
An afterburner (or a reheat) is a component present on some jet engines, mostly military supersonic aircraft. Its purpose is to provide an increase in thrust, usually for supersonic flight, takeoff and for combat situations. Afterburning is achieved by injecting additional fuel into the jet pipe downstream of (i.e. after) the turbine. The advantage of afterburning is significantly increased thrust; the disadvantage is its very high fuel consumption and inefficiency, though this is often regarded as acceptable for the short periods during which it is usually used.
Pilots can activate and deactivate afterburners in-flight, and jet engines are referred to as operating wet when afterburning is being used and dry when not. An engine producing maximum thrust wet is at maximum power, while an engine producing maximum thrust dry is at military power.
The Afterburner lighting kit by Triton Labs is an aftermarket modification to the Game Boy Advance in which a frontlight is installed into the unit.
Upon the release of the Game Boy Advance in June 2001, a vast number of users of the Game Boy Advance complained about the screen's poor visibility; with no internal backlight or frontlight the LCD was only visible in direct light, too much of which would cause glare. Adam Curtis, creator of Triton Labs, put forth the solution in the form of a frontlight kit that allowed the screen to be seen in any environment, even in total darkness.
The Afterburner greatly improves screen visibility at the cost of 25% to 30% battery life reduction, though this can be remedied with the use of a brightness control and extra capacity batteries. The Afterburner kit came with a thumbwheel potentiometer that could be installed to control the light's brightness. Another option was the Stealth Dimmer chip, created by Division 6. This chip let the brightness of the Afterburner be controlled using the Game Boy Advance's existing buttons, so there was no need to carve an extra hole in the case to mount a dimmer.
Due to the construction of the Game Boy Advance case, the Afterburner light is slightly too narrow to illuminate the screen evenly. This creates what is called the "trapezoid effect": a trapezoid-shaped pattern of light across the screen. The Game Boy Advance SP does not suffer from the "trapezoid effect", though its integrated battery makes the power drain more significant.
The following comment from Game Boy Advance SP creator Kenichi Sugino is taken from an interview with GamePro magazine:
"In a way, though, it also reminded us of exactly how many users really wanted to see some kind of light in their Game Boy Advances. It was an impetus for us to devote the time to figuring out how to finally just do it. So, in that aspect, it helped us during SP development as well."
Afterburner is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.
Afterburner is a roller coaster currently standing but not operating at Fun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo in Angola, Indiana.
Usage examples of "afterburner".
On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.
The Russian bombers were on afterburner and were nearly as fast as the fighters.
To the bare-bones fuel requirements he added five minutes on afterburner in case of air-to-air combat and ten minutes to orbit Bitburg for landing.
Twenty thousand feet below them, shielded from ground radar by a pair of mountains, twelve Tomcats of the Black Aces went to afterburner, their radars shut off as the twin-engined fighters rocketed skyward.
The Soviet bombers climbed steeply on afterburner, activating their own look-down radars to find targets for their missiles.
The fighters went to afterburner and swept into punishing high-g turns while heads swiveled and eyes squinted at familiar shapes while trying to decide if the paint scheme was friendly or not.
Caution faded to nothing as he closed on afterburner and ignored his low-fuel state light.
The supersonic Russian bombers went to afterburner and activated their radars in a contest with time, distance, and American interceptors.
Coyote killed the afterburner, then snapped the Tomcat into a wingover which sent the heavy aircraft plunging toward the cloud deck in an inverted dive.
Tombstone rammed the throttles forward to full afterburner and clawed for altitude once more.
The nimble, twin-tailed single-seater vaulted skyward under his touch, afterburner flaring.
Sea and sky chased one another across the curve of his canopy, and then he cut in his afterburner and the kick slammed his seat into his back with pile driver force.
Sustained maneuvers on full afterburner drank fuel at an impossible rate.
At first Batman thought the Fantan was cutting in its afterburner, but then he realized that fuel was spilling into the tailpipe and igniting.
He punched up the new navigation coordinates, and checked his afterburner fuel reserve.