jettisoning
English edit
Verb edit
jettisoning
- present participle and gerund of jettison
Noun edit
jettisoning (plural jettisonings)
- The action by which something is jettisoned.
- 1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and water development appropriations for 1987, page 1476:
- Both weapons are presumed to have submerged almost instantly. The ocean varies in depth in the area of the jettisonings.