interstage
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
interstage (plural interstages)
- (astronautics) The structure, generally containing mechanical components and instruments but no engines or fuel tanks, connecting the top of a stage of a multistage rocket to the bottom of the stage above it.
- (military) The components of a multistage thermonuclear weapon which channel the radiation produced by the primary's fission explosion so as to trigger the implosion of the secondary and ignite a fusion explosion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
Adjective edit
interstage (not comparable)
- Between stages.