launching

English

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Verb

launching

1. present participle and gerund of launch

Noun

launching (plural launchings)

1. The act by which something is launched; a launch.

   The launching of the Titanic.

   • 2010, Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets, page 123:

     By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

Usage notes

• Launch suggests an event at a point in time. Launching suggests a process over time.

Derived terms

• zero-length launching

Translations

act by which something is launched

• Danish: (nautical) søsætning c
• Finnish: vesillelasku, julkistaminen (fi), lanseeraus (fi), käynnistäminen (fi)
• Galician: lanzamento (gl) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (nautical) sjøsetting (no) m or f, sjøsetning m or f

  Nynorsk: (nautical) sjøsetjing f, sjøsetting f

• Swedish: (nautical) sjösättning (sv) c

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