sound barrier

Noun

Meaning

the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sonic barrier knot sonic boom escape velocity speed of sound ground speed sonic fence acoustic velocity solid wall effective barrier actual barrier certain barrier good block dimensional barrier good blocks

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Hypernyms

drag retarding force

Examples

By the time the sound barrier was broken, much of the subsonic and low supersonic aerodynamics knowledge had matured. Source: Internet

Leonov believes the first boom he heard was that of the jet breaking the sound barrier, and the second was Gagarin's plane crashing. Source: Internet

Edwards Air Force Base in California’s High Desert is well-known for its firsts; first flights of aircraft, first time breaking the sound barrier, first shuttle landing site, and the list goes on. Source: Internet

This rapid increase in drag led aerodynamicists and aviators to disagree on whether supersonic flight was achievable until the sound barrier was broken for the first time in 1947 using the Bell X-1 aircraft. Source: Internet

This latter message, in particular, broke the sound barrier. Source: Internet

Yet we are also convinced that a sound barrier will eventually have to be built. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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