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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jettison \Jet"ti*son\ n. [See Jetsam.]
(Mar. Law) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
See Jetsam, 1.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from jettison (n.) "act of throwing overboard" to lighten a ship. This noun was an 18c. Marine Insurance writers' restoration of the earlier form and original sense of the 15c. word that had become jetsam, probably because jetsam had taken on a sense of "things cast overboard" and an unambiguous word was needed for "act of throwing overboard."\n
\nMiddle English jetteson (n.) "act of throwing overboard" is from Anglo-French getteson, from Old French getaison "act of throwing (goods overboard)," especially to lighten a ship in distress, from Late Latin iactionem (nominative iactatio) "act of throwing," noun of action from past participle stem of iectare "toss about" (see jet (v.)). Related: Jettisoned.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon. 2 (context countable English) The action of jettisoning items. vb. 1 To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load. 2 To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.
WordNet
v. throw away, of something encumbering
throw as from an airplane
Wikipedia
Jettison may refer to:
- Jettison (album), an album by Chicago punk rock band Naked Raygun, released in 1988
- Jettison (record label), a Chicago-based indie record label owned by Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun
- Jettison (Steady Ground album), an album by Alternative Rock band Steady Ground, released in 2007
- Jettison, a play by actor Brendan Bradley
- "Jettison", a song from the album The Virginian by Neko Case
Jettison is the third album by Chicago punk band Naked Raygun, released on Caroline Records in 1988.
In aviation, to jettison is to discard fuel, external stores or other expendable items. The item is usually jettisioned by operating a switch or handle; external stores may be separated from the aircraft by use of explosive bolts or a mechanism.
Fuel jettison Fuel jettisoning or fuel dumping is an emergency procedure used by crews of to reduce an aircraft's weight in an emergency when the aircraft needs to land safely. External stores jettison Some military aircraft can carry weapons (for example bombs or rockets) and fuel tanks on external hardpoints. The pilot can jettison them if necessary, so they do not inhibit actions during combat or in an emergency.Usage examples of "jettison".
All Archaeon cultures, along with the containers holding them, should be incinerated in onboard crucible and the ashes jettisoned.
It was no longer visible, not just because of the jettisoning of the rocket motor but because it was cruising below the radar grass, maybe only forty feet above the water.
The decision to delay activation of many of the reservists and to jettison the TPFDL delayed the establishment of the Theater Support Command, which was to manage the logistics for the ground forces, and played havoc with the deployments.
Jones jettisoned his manners and swiveled as Clarice walked regally forward.
I jettisoned the unprofitable routes, retracted the company back to Quartz River, reorganized the dock, and used my training at Tey to improve service.
If the witenagemot really wants to jettison Cynewulf this time, it will have to promote a new family to royalty.
Christianson were attempting to update the autopilot in order to find a good stretch of empty space to jettison the crew when Bill walked in alone, having drawn the short straw.
The twenty-four pounders, like the six field guns that should have been delivered to Baltimore, were likewise spiked, turned off their carriages, and jettisoned into the flooded ditch.
The mind screamed the order to the thought-guidance system, and the last of the decoys in the Rearward Defence Pod was jettisoned.
Swane, whose plans for going back to Seant had just been jettisoned by some process that he never would understand.
An attack by tactical fighters against Iceland was expected at any time, and the bomber crews knew that any NATO fighter pilot worthy of his name would instantly jettison his bombload for a chance at air-to-air combat with so helpless a target as a twenty-year-old Badger.
Through ghettoization, the Jew was jettisoned beyond that boundary and placed psychologically and physically outside the culture, its practices and values, its social and political institutions and living spaces.
She disliked the crucifixes hanging on the walls so Massena jettisoned them through the window, then asked what she would like to eat.
A cook jettisoned a bucket of slops over the side and gulls, screaming like banshees, swooped from the air between the yards to fight over the scraps.
They began to jettison their submunitions, and everything became far too complicated for the human mind to follow.