| 单词 | solar sail |
| 释义 | solar sailnounAerospace. a design concept for spacecraft propulsion consisting of a very thin, very large sheet of highly polished material that would be driven by the pressure of sunlight. Origin of solar sailFirst recorded in 1955–60 Words nearby solar sailsolar plexus, solar pond, solar power, solar radiation, solar radius, solar sail, solar ship, solar still, solar system, solar time, solar urticaria Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for solar sailsolar sail nouna device that reflects light particles from the Sun, gaining momentum in the opposite direction to propel spacecraft forwards Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for solar sailsolar sail A saillike device that is made of lightweight and highly reflective material and attached to a spacecraft to harness the radiation pressure of the solar wind and light for propulsion. Also called light sail The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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