What is "midcourse"

Usage examples of "midcourse".

Abandoning the attempt to recover the light stand, the actor halted in midcourse, whirled around, and barreled toward the passenger side of the van.

This was an error that, once caught, would require a series of midcourse corrections.

At first he flailed around with both arms and legs kicking almost at random, the antics moving him hardly at all and invariably sending him tumbling head over heels, but then he learned the trick of kicking off from one solid object to the next, even for distances of a hundred feet or more, using his legs to propel him and his cupped palms to make slight midcourse corrections.

It would annihilate their missiles in midcourse, absorb their energy beams, and smash them out of existence, did they choose to fight.

Each was equipped with a thruster system used for midcourse corrections and to keep the cylinder from tumbling in flight.

A crucial midcourse correction, equally unlooked-for, was supplied by Piers Bursill-Hall after he sat through an infamously long lecture delivered by yours truly in Cambridge in 2002.

Their midcourse maneuver had put them slightly ahead for now, and my hopes for getting permission for an autonomous catch-up burn were about nil.

Our final midcourse maneuver was scheduled in two days and things would be too busy then, and too locked in concrete, to coordinate any trajectory changes with the Norwegians.

Doing midcourse maneuvers with our fleet is not trivial, but I found need for another one.

The simultaneous deep space restart of our nuclear rockets was ten times as complicated as the chemical midcourse maneuvers.

Perhaps that sighting was a midcourse correction and the x-ray source is an attempt at communication.

Committee has been discussing the possibility of a midcourse correction in the partnership contracts.

I opened the envelope this morning and it was exactly the same as before the midcourse correction.

Launched just roughly in the right direction, it relies on continual feedback to make midcourse corrections.

A fine layer of dust overlaid much of it, as if projects had been abandoned in midcourse, months or even years ago.