What is "reusable"

Usage examples of "reusable".

The Shuttle is not a true reusable launch vehicle, considering the efforts it takes to refly one.

They can only be used once against the curse burrs, but are infinitely reusable against goblins.

The goods, mostly canned food and reusable objects, filtered through Little America, where Kellogg and his Food Rangers co-ordinated distribution.

Even the humans at the top of the campaign for a human return to orbit had promoted chemical rockets as the way to go, because that was the way humans historically had done it, those were the plans they apparently did have, and because it was easier to sell a historical concept to the dim lights of the Human Heritage Party who had fallen into bed with them, politically speaking, than it was to sell the technologically more complex reusable vehicle that depended on the composites manufacturing facility they didn't want to fund.

Thank you for the update in your annual report on your progress in modifying water sylphweed to provide the dual function of water purification on a commercial scale and to precipitate toxic and nontoxic contaminants in a reusable mineral form.

See, the ball bearings used by the peashooters and the dummy rounds from the Halmans was all reusable.

It also converts metal from the tiny chips and circuit boards in the agency's obsolete computers into reusable scrap.

Rockwell was even trying to make the Command Module reusable, by providing saltwater protection and modularizing its components—so a module could be cannibalized after splashdown, even if the whole thing couldn't be flown again.

Boeing had all sorts of ideas for reducing the costs of the Saturn V system, for instance by adding strap-on reusable rockets to it, and even making the S-IC itself recoverable, including wings, parachutes, hydrogen-filled balloons, drag brakes, paragliders, and rotary systems of spinning parachutes.

The XLR-99 engine was a throttleable, restartable, reusable rocket engine, with almost as much thrust as the throwaway Redstone booster which had thrown Shepard and Grissom up on their first Mercury suborbital lobs.