GRAVITY-ASSIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gravity-assist mean? 

• GRAVITY-ASSIST (noun)
  The noun GRAVITY-ASSIST has 1 sense:

1. (spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field

  Familiarity information: GRAVITY-ASSIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVITY-ASSIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("gravity-assist" is a kind of...):

flight; trajectory (the path followed by an object moving through space)

Domain category:

space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight (a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere)