What is "repulser"

Usage examples of "repulser".

The repulser units themselves could handle enormous temperatures, but it was doubtful the designers had expected the flyer to be flat on the ground at the time.

The vast, extended silver cigar was built externally on the ancient zeppelin pattern but with an industrial stasis generator and a pair of big mass repulsers where the gasbags had been back in the olden days.

We got just a fragment of something about the repulsers going crazy, and then they were cut off.

If just the underside repulsers went out, would they have had time to switch to forward motion?

For that instant the underside repulsers were aiming slightly forward, giving the flyer a small backward thrust.

Two meters were all they could manage before the underside temp monitors hit critical and shut down the repulsers, bringing the craft back down with a bone-jarring crunch.

Through his window, Meredith watched it brake to a midair halt on its repulsers and settle to the ground somewhere between Unie and Crosse.

The underside repulsers, already being eaten away, could not be fired.

Olympus, discharging its cargo of scrap metal, and lifting on repulsers in time for the next shuttle to take its place.

One cut the screen, the second told the pilot to slam on the repulser brakes and the third brought Waldron into the narrow compartment.