An elongated device or craft in which a rocket engine is the means of propulsion, such as a flying bomb, a military missile, or a spacecraft.

(a) a rocket designed for flight to the moon; (b) a funfair ride consisting of rocket-shaped cars which travel round an inclined circular track.

a rocket designed to travel beyond the earth's atmosphere.

(a) a large gun which projects a spacecraft into space; (b) a hand-held gun whose recoil is used by an astronaut to propel himself or herself.

a rocket of two or more stages.

(a) = ion engine n.; (b) a rocket in which an ion engine is the means of propulsion.

a rocket propelled by the backward ejection of photons.

An exploratory rocket carried by balloon to the upper atmosphere where it is fired, so as to achieve a greater height than a ground-launched rocket.

a rocket or other vehicle used to carry spacecraft into space.

A device or structure that launches something or is used for launching; spec. (a) a structure that holds a rocket or missile during launching…

Characteristic of the vast scale of the universe and its changes; applied to the distances between the heavenly bodies, the periods of time occupied…

a small auxiliary rocket used under conditions of weightlessness to provide sufficient acceleration to force liquid propellants to one end of the…