Crossword clues for booster
booster
- Supporter
- Rocket stage
- Rah-rah sort
- The first stage of a multistage rocket
- An additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective
- Someone who is an active supporter and advocate
- A person who backs a politician or a team etc.
- A thief who steals goods that are on display in a store
- Enthusiastic supporter
- Rocket's first stage
- Additional dose that makes sure the first was effective
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booster \Boost"er\ (b[=oo]st"[~e]r), n.
(Elec.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to ``boost'', or raise, the pressure in the circuit.
an enthusiastic supporter.
the first stage of a multistage rocket, providing all or part of the driving force at lift-off and until the second stage ignites, whether or not the booster stage is detached after the fuel is spent. Also called booster rocket. In some cases, a booster has been used to assist the takeoff of airplanes.
(Med.) an immunizing medication given after an initial immunizing treatment, to provide increased or extended immunity. Also called booster dose. When in the form of an injection, it may be called a booster shot.
any auxiliary device or part of a device to provide increased power, force, or effectiveness, as with a pumping device.
(Mil.) an explosive charge which is more powerful than a primer, used in conjunction with a primer to assure detonation of the main charge. Integrated blasting caps containing separate compartments for primer and booster are used as detonators for certain explosives.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1890, "one who boosts" something, agent noun from boost (v.). Electrical sense is recorded from 1894. Young child's booster chair is attested under that name from 1960.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that boosts. 2 The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight 3 A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits. 4 Someone who is a fan or supporter of something. 5 Someone who promotes a town or business 6 A member of a booster club. 7 A booster dose. 8 (context linguistics English) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
WordNet
n. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" [syn: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, friend]
someone who is an active supporter and advocate [syn: promoter, plugger]
a thief who steals goods that are in a store [syn: shoplifter, lifter]
the first stage of a multistage rocket [syn: booster rocket, booster unit, multistage rocket, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket]
an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective [syn: booster dose, booster shot, recall dose]
Wikipedia
Booster may refer to:
A booster was a motor-generator (MG) set used for voltage regulation in direct current (DC) electrical power circuits. The development of alternating current and solid-state devices has rendered it obsolete. Boosters were made in various configurations to suit different applications.
Booster is an amusement park ride made by HUSS Park Attractions.
Booster is an evolution of the HUSS's Breakdance ride, and a competitor of Mondial's Shake and Fabbri's Crazy Shake rides. The basic movement is the same as these rides, but the car is pivoted so that riders are spun sideways. During the ride, the cars frequently flip riders upside down. Most parks require riders to be at least 52 inches or taller.
Booster is an amusement ride made by Fabbri.
It is a pendulum ride, similar to the later Speed by KMG (which, due to its similarity to the Fabbri ride, is often referred to as the KMG Booster)..
There is another ride from the Italian company, Zamperla. Zamperla made a booster like ride called Turbo Force made in 2001.
A booster rocket (or engine) is either the first stage of a multistage launch vehicle, or else a shorter-burning rocket used in parallel with longer-burning sustainer rockets to augment the space vehicle's takeoff thrust and payload capability. (Boosters used in this way are frequently designated "zero stages".) Boosters are traditionally necessary to launch spacecraft into low Earth orbit (absent a single-stage-to-orbit design), and are certainly necessary for a space vehicle to go beyond Earth orbit. The booster is dropped to fall back to Earth once its fuel is expended, a point known as booster engine cut-off (BECO). The rest of the launch vehicle continues flight with its core or upper-stage engines. The booster may be recovered and reused, as in the case of the Space Shuttle.
Strap-on boosters are sometimes used to augment the payload or range capability of jet aircraft (usually military).
Usage examples of "booster".
Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.
This was where the big payload ships rode their boosters up through the atmosphere or glided back to Earth with their airfoils extended.
There was still equipment fastened to its outer surface, and a scant half-second after the blowoff of the boosters a gigantic parachute flowered above the falling lump of plastic.
Albatross 8 had been sent aloft eleven months earlier by a heavy-lift booster from the Cosmodrome at Tyuratam.
Then Ulanova relinquished the spotlight, and Evan sauntered to the fore, his clear eyes and healthy color a testament to the liberal ingestion of both black coffee and dehydro boosters.
Ulanova relinquished the spotlight, and Evan sauntered to the fore, his clear eyes and healthy color a testament to the liberal ingestion of both black coffee and dehydro boosters.
In V8 Hyenas and haunchy drophead Acapulcos they cruise the road-margined seas, gunning to the medical zone for their daily DNA boosters and plasma rethinks.
Huge enviro boosters were off to my left, blocking much of the light from the corridor.
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.
I had to hang up, but half an hour later Yuri Glinkov, their director of operations, was on the line, promising me that his huge Energia boosters could do anything I wanted them to do, yes even get an orbital habitat into geosynchronous orbit.
But it was not until now, this oddly mundane moment here on this hillside, in a cheap car with jabbering Paulis and taciturn Xenia, that he had actually set eyes on his BDB: his Big Dumb Booster, the spaceship whose destiny would shape the rest of this life, one way or the other.
The one fusion reactor on the world powered most of the manufacturing, including the boosters and propellant for the shuttles and for the tugs to capture the orbiting masses of rock which had arrived from earth instead of ships when jumps went backward.
Miriam had asked me about Lennie, it had been in breathless terms-Lennie, lassoer of asteroids, the man who had grabbed an Apollo-Amor body using Russian boosters and a polyglot crew.
He was lucky enough to have a window near his face, and he strained to catch sight of the leaflike boosters as they tumbled away and looped over for the long glide down.
Right away, Ramzi launched into a lecture on the design of the 1,500-pound Trade Center device, noting that it was constructed using a booster with a 20-kilogram mix of ammonium nitrate, nitromethane, and analite.