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supersonic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
supersonic \su`per*son"ic\, a.
Moving at a speed greater than the speed of sound in air; -- this speed varies with altitude, since the speed of sound varies with altitude, as well as with temperature and humidity, being approximately 1129 feet per second at sea level and 984 feet per second at 16 miles altitude.
Capable of moving at speeds higher than the speed of sound; -- of aircraft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1919, "of or having to do with sound waves beyond the limit of human hearing," from super- + sonic. Attested from 1934 in sense of "exceeding the speed of sound" (especially as a measure of aircraft speed), leaving the original sense to ultrasonic (1923).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a speed English) greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure) 2 (context colloquial of a sound English) ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible
WordNet
adj. (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air); "a supersonic bomber flies so fast that it must release its bombs while the target is still over the horizon" [ant: sonic, subsonic]
having frequencies above those of audible sound [syn: ultrasonic]
Wikipedia
"Supersonic" is the debut single by the English rock band Oasis, written by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was released on 11 April 1994 as Oasis' debut single and appears on their debut album Definitely Maybe, released in August 1994.
Supersonic is a 1988 hip-hop album by J. J. Fad, released on Ruthless Records. The album was produced by Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, all members of N.W.A, and executively produced by Eric " Eazy-E" Wright (also of N.W.A). The album was distributed by Atco Records, a division of Atlantic Records. The title track was written by group members Dania Maria Birks and Juanita Michelle Burns-Sperling, former members Juanita A. Lee and Fatima Shasheed, and Kim Nazel.
The album is certified gold by the RIAA. In addition to the title track ( "Supersonic"), the singles were "Way Out" and "Is It Love". "Supersonic" was the band's biggest pop hit and was ranked #76 in VH1's 2009 special "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s".
In 2006, hip hop singer Fergie's smash-hit single " Fergalicious" sampled the title song along with Afro-Rican's "Give It All You Got".
"Supersonic" was mentioned by the group Teriyaki Boyz in their song "Tokyo Drift" from the The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift soundtrack. "Supersonic" was used in the dance game Dance Central 3.
Supersonic refers to any speed over the speed of sound.
Supersonic may also refer to:
"Supersonic" is the third single from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai's fourth studio album, Synkronized. The song was written by Jason Kay. The word "supersonic" is repeated a total number of 127 times throughout the song. The track was their third #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart, and peaked at #22 on the UK Singles Chart. The single release features various remixes of the song. "Supersonic" was one of five tracks remixed in 2006 for the group's Classic Club releases.
Supersonic is a studio album by Korean singer Younha, released on July 03, 2012. While technically her fifth Korean album, it is fourth album as a whole, as referenced by the album title.
Supersonic is a Hungarian indie rock band based in Budapest, Hungary formed in 2001. The band consists of members Balázs Bakó (vocals), Ádám Iliás (bass), Csaba Neményi (guitars), András Tóth (drums). Supersonic has been compared to bands like Primal Scream, The Verve and Kasabian.
"Supersonic" is a 1988 single by J.J. Fad from their self-titled debut album. It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Songs and #22 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. "Supersonic" stayed on the dance charts for eight weeks. The song went gold, and also got nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, making them the first all-female rap group to be nominated for a Grammy award.
Supersonic was a British children's television music show which featured pop music artists of the day. Launched in 1975, it was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network and ran for two years. The show typically lasted 30 minutes and was broadcast, firstly, on Thursday afternoons - Series 1, Show 1: (4 September 1975) - Series 1, Show 18: The Supersonic Christmas Show 1975 (25 December 1975.) It was then moved to a Saturday afternoon slot from Series 1, Show 19: (3 January 1976.) The programme was devised and created by David Deyong and presented by film and music producer Mike Mansfield and the main theme was composed and sung by Andy Bown.
Although the show starred performers with songs in the music charts, the show, unlike its BBC rival Top of the Pops, was not chart-based. Whilst Top of the Pops ran all year, Supersonic had a limited run with season one consisting of 30 editions and season two consisting of 28.
The show was recorded in front of an audience of children at London Weekend's studios, then known as the South Bank Television Centre and used a laissez-faire style of production in which cameras were highly visible and areas such as the production gallery were featured. Its host also doubled up as producer and director, cueing in performances from the studio gallery instead of presenting conventional links to camera.
The original series received limited US broadcast in syndication at the time. Later, musical performances from this show were repackaged for U.S. television, under the title Twiggy's Jukebox, hosted by model-turned-actor/singer Twiggy, which ran for one season in 1978-1979.
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Usage examples of "supersonic".
The supersonic Russian bombers went to afterburner and activated their radars in a contest with time, distance, and American interceptors.
Theory of Relativity into Chaucerian English or to describe a supersonic aircraft in vocabulary derived from Middle High German.
At the Long Island shuttleport they were lobbed over to the International Supersonic Port, which floated some twenty miles off the coast, and from there took the next laserboost to a similar jetport stationed off Lisbon.
But Oreo said it used supersonic vibration, tuned to stimulate the pain centers of the brain.
Captain Josie Lockworth, USAF, upped the throttle and pushed forward on the stick of her T-38 supersonic jet.
So here we are with the technology of supersonic fighter bombers that were unable to accomplish the mission.
United States had more than 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 80 missiles on nuclear submarines, 90 missiles on stations overseas, 1,700 bombers capable of reaching the Soviet Union, 300 fighter-bombers on aircraft carriers, able to carry atomic weapons, and 1,000 land-based supersonic fighters able to carry atomic bombs.
The short supersonic dash from Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base had been ordered seconds after the Boeing 727 departed without clearance, and they had used a lot of their fuel in the processa fact that was worrying both of them.
There were other supersonic antiradar missiles in the American arsenal, such as the HARM missile-this could be one of them.
Around the red ran a ring of gray with pink shading where one or two persistent forms of insect life resisted man’s poisons, jelly flames, astringents, sonitoxics—the combination of flamant couroq and supersonics that drove insects from their hiding places into waiting death—and all the mechanical traps and luring baits in the bandeirante arsenal.
Her blips were supersonic Tu-22M Backfires, coming in slowly enough to indicate that they were heavily loaded with external ordnance.
If bad news traveled quickly, then word of Bhopal’s agonized convulsions must be crossing the country faster than a supersonic jet.
A little of whatever it was that kept you functioning while you waited for the armor to buckle under the brute impact of an antitank shell and send spalls flying like supersonic buzzsaws, for the millisecond flame of exploding ammunition, for the slower trickle of burning fuel as you hammered at a jammed hatch.
The Zdonek and the other dropships plummeted at supersonic speed directly toward the main Jem’Hadar encampment, which Shinzon was pleased to see was illuminated by fires and explosions wrought by his Scorpion-class fighters, which drew most of the enemy fire away from the dropships.
Much of the skin not exposed to high levels of heat in supersonic flight was composed of radar-absorbent material, and the huge engine air inlets for the four Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning engines had been redesigned so the engines' compressor blades wouldn't reflect radar energy.