What is "braking"

Usage examples of "braking".

So, even though braking would not be required until the ship reached the balk line ten days hence, Gorgas ordered the Flip when they reached the median of the grand secant and hosted the traditional meal that very evening.

Sergeant Brool was braking his speed and turning so that he would land tail fins first.

The trunk tilted with the momentum, and if Parvis had not supported it, had not pulled it out of its forward plunge with a series of gradually braking steps, it definitely would have crashed to the ground.

Slowly, as the Admiral Stoloff continued braking to orbital speed, the lights enlarged and resolved into the familiar oblates, spheres, and polyhedra of Confederation Navy Base Gagarin, moving slowly in their ponderous, stately waltz.

Frowning, Quent watched Imray braking to stability over the dark craters of the moon whose lighted side had guided his ground search.

Down dry, coarse-grained scree he stepped, braking as much as possible to contain the pull of the seventeen-hundred-ton strider on the incline.

The antilock braking system shuddered and held, pulling her gradually out of the skid.

Come completely off the brakes for an instant, make your steering correction, straighten the wheel again then continue cadence braking till stopped.

It is assumed that braking action due to rotation or some other mechanism ultimately leads to mantle-envelope explosion following core implosion caused by endoergic nuclear phase changes.

It was a long, wild ride through the moonlit Palouse that night, with him speeding down the straightaways and braking on the curves.

Thus they had but a few seconds to ride it before it pitched upward, from their perspective, and applied braking acceleration just sufficient to bring them to rest in view of the great spectacle.

The winchman, fortunately, was as quick-witted as he was experienced, and as the wildly careening crate swung jerkily back to dead centre he lowered away at two or three times the normal speed, braking just seconds before the lowermost corner of the crate crunched and splintered against the floor of the hold.

An aircar came in on a low approach, streaking over the forest canopy to land with a sudden braking blast in a small open area.

The ship had begun the final braking maneuver that would swing it past Callisto and put it in orbit around Jupiter half a million miles beyond the fringes of the radiation belt.

In his haste he failed to take the few running steps that would have countered the sudden braking when his feet hit the skidproof surface of the slow lane.