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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flyby
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ During the flyby, the spacecraft will measure gases in the atmosphere.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Mathilde flyby cost the mission 22 pounds of precious fuel.
▪ A third flyby was carried out two Mercury years later, on March 16, 1975.
▪ But to astronomers, the close flyby of Icarus was nothing new.
▪ C., will perform a flyby over Sun Devil Stadium.
▪ Such observations are rare, and the phenomena associated with these close flybys of Earth are elusive.
▪ This flyby mission could be flown on the reliable Proton booster and could be done quickly.
▪ Two Royal Navy Lynx helicopters made repeated flybys at varying heights, from different directions and at different speeds.
Wiktionary
flyby

n. 1 A flight past a celestial object in order to make observation. 2 (context US English) A low-level flight of ceremonial nature, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade. 3 A brief visit.

Wikipedia
Flyby

Flyby may refer to:

  • Flypast or flyover, a celebratory display or ceremonial flight
  • Planetary flyby, a type of interplanetary spacecraft mission
  • Gravity assist, a spaceflight maneuver
  • " Fly by II", a single released by the UK band Blue
  • Fly-by, circuit topology used in DDR3 SDRAM memory technology

Usage examples of "flyby".

Voluminal influences/interests rated Creheesil 15%, Affront 10%, Culture 5% (the normal claimed minimum, the Culture's influence/interest equivalent of back­ground radiation), and a smattering of investigations and flybys by twenty other civilisations making up a nominal 2%.

With two flybys of Venus, one of Earth, and one of Jupiter for gravitational assists, the ship will, after a seven-year voyage, be injected into orbit around Saturn.

At any rate, no camera was flown, and subsequent missions have, for this particular world, at least partly vindicated that judgment: Even at high resolution from close flybys, in visible light it turns out there are no breaks in the clouds of Venus, any more than in the clouds of Titan.

The orbits, pumped and shaped in three dimensions by Titan flybys, had periods ranging from a hundred days to ten, Saturn closest approaches ranging from three Saturn radii to seven, orbital inclinations ranging up to sixty degrees above Saturn's equator.

The long curve of windows, which were shielded against sun and flybys, kept the room in shadows.

She heard the whirl of flybys, then cursed the media again as she spotted the first air van.

The last two times he had done this, the basket was bobbing and weaving so much, it took several flybys before he actually had time to jump in.

In a large conference room at the Sudbury ground station, Rollie Thibodeau and the rest of the twenty-four- man RDT were gathered before a flat-panel wall monitor, viewing the same pictures that appeared on the Cessna's video display as it made its flyby.

But she knew it was privacy treated to prevent anyone nervy enough to try a flyby from seeing in.

But flybys past and orbiters around Mars have found no excess of molecular oxygen, no substances--whatever their nature--enigmatically and profoundly departing from thermodynamic equilibrium, no unexpected surface pigments and no modulated radio emissions.